Inspired by Janni, who cleverly noted the cam was up and running on 1 March, and filled with hope for this nest for 2021, here's the new thread!
Link to 2020 thread
In 2017, her first breeding season. Clarach (hatched Dyfi in 2013) mated with an unknown male, laying 3 eggs. The third chick hatched/died 15th June, the other two on 12th and 13th June. Male LHO took his first flight 4th August, Male LH1 9th August. Clarach departed 1st September, LHO 3rd, LH1 12th September.
Clarach came back in 2018 but sadly lost her eggs to ravens. In 2019, she returned on 10 April, and partnered first with White CL, a 2008 bird hatched at Loch Lomond. He disappeared and was replaced by an unringed male on 3 May, and Clarach was seen to be incubating by 6 May (who was the daddy...?!). But she'd abandoned the nest by the end of May and Dyfi posted that her eggs had been predated. It was difficult to keep up with the nest as the webcam failed but FLS posted updates on their Facebook page. Staff thought the male hadn't been providing her with fish on the nest, as he had another nest to provision! In 2020, hope was raised when a few ospreys dropped by in April and May, including White CL, at one point on the nest with an unringed female. The Lodge Facebook page posted a great photo by Sami in April which was thought to be Clarach. After that, lots of osprey-less photos were posted comparing the rise and fall of the webcam, the state of the sticks on the nest, the sinkage of the nest (great word Mary) and the weather.
Let's see what happens this year!
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Good to see her. She's arranging the odd stick albeit with a 'where do I start?' look
edit. I think that might be the male? Both on the nest now
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You seem to get a much better pic than me KORKY When I click on my link the image almost fills the whole screen CL arrived but did not stay long
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Richard B
Unknown said:has the camera moved up
My first thought when I loaded the footage, Richard. We can see hardly any nest now. Must have been the wind I suppose.
The Crossbill couple were on the nest again - it was quite funny (that might not be the right word), she beavered away collecting nest material and he "supervised"
No ospreys until mid-afternoon!
If I did a vid of this you wouldn't see the detail, the frame rate is so very low.
Blue ring ???
After some posturing, he flew off with the fish - plus a stick got caught up:
Back again with fish only:
She got the fish and flew with it:
That was definitely her flying off with fish because when he gave a little prance he didn't have it:
She returned fishless - that seemed quick:
There were a couple of failed mating attempts, they spent a lot of time watchful:
And that's how the on-cam day ended.
IMAGICAT
White CL was on the nest then I think he hopped up to the cam post.
The female is still on the nest looking up at him.
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Let's hope he can give the camera a bit of a nudge to get it pointing down a little bit!
Mary, you just beat me to it! This successful mating took place just a minute or so later. White CL then flew off and the female is still on the nest.© Aberfoyle Osprey Project
Sandra P said:Let's hope he can give the camera a bit of a nudge to get it pointing down a little bit!
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LOL Sandra - maybe they should try a bit of copulating on the cam, that might do the trick.