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!
08 July
Rock solid 6h52m but not a soul seen all day.
IMAGICAT
Another good cam day but only one, brief, early appearance, when WhiteCL brought in a substantial clump and stayed nearly 3 minutes:
10 July
WhiteCL and ptr arrived late in the day and stayed only a few minutes - no fish or nest materials involved:
11 July
Not such a solid cam performance today, there was some heavy rain and periods of darkness.
14:30 - While investigating the mysterious movement of the sticks in the second snap, managed to find evidence of a stick delivery in the first:
An hour later:
'Ello?! What's going on?
She's back, urgent!
Threat over, she's off again:
CL stayed and nestorised, even nestcupping
And again:
Off he flew, that was it for the on-cam day:
12 July was a very difficult cam day, with umpteen nano-files and a couple of substantial ones adding up to 6h04m between 10:20 and 16:38 (at which time it was raining) but no birds whatsoever seen.
13 July - so far, the stream is in a very bad way, it's cutting off after only a few minutes, often only a few seconds at a time.
Wow, I just thought I should clear out the myriad fragments that have come in this morning, I deleted everything under a couple of minutes long and joined up the rest, and lo! Here was WhiteCL driving off an unringed male intruder: