RUTLAND OSPREY PROJECT 2021

There is a strong possibility this is S2
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Canada geese this morning, the second one didn't land, they both swam off to our right:

Unknown said:

There is a strong possibility this is S2
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Our own recording of the event, better late than never:

Another, slightly longer, visit just before 2 in the afternoon - does this bird have it's coloured ring on the "other" leg?  Lovely sail-off, with scraps in its talons:

The little black 'n white "wagtail" (speculated) perched again for a short while.

There is now a reply to this Tweet stating, "This is Black 7TG a German bird from 2014. The nest of Blue S2 is blown out by a storm..! Hopefully they will rebuild that. I will keep you informed!" That was in reply to a comment from Tim Mackrill asking if this was S2. Somewhere else earlier I saw a comment that both that bird and S2 were on the nest together at one point. Apologies that I cannot recall where I read that--sorry. Might have been on YouTube chat for Glaslyn.

SCYLLA I think you got over excited posting the first video.......S2 is Maya's son........just for the record LOL

Unknown said:

Somewhere else earlier I saw a comment that both that bird and S2 were on the nest together at one point.

I'm almost 100% sure it wasn't on the 26th, GB, I've just checked thru the day again.

Today I've only got 45 minutes so far, as they changed the URL without asking me or even notifying me, shock-horror, and I was taking it for granted.

patily said:

SCYLLA I think you got over excited posting the first video.......S2 is Maya's son........just for the record LOL

Thank you PATILY!  I knew it was a familiar female whose husband at that time was unfamiliar to me, and I picked the wrong one, dang!  I'll go back and correct it.

EDIT - and in that instance it's very relevant to call her Mrs5R/Maya.  Mrs5R was my heroine when I first watched her defending the nest on her own

Visarend, NL.

Here was brief skimmting across the water:

And 2 "Pied Wagtails":

Two landings - this has been chopped rather than edited, it's just for the record:

If this isn't S2 I'm wasting my time, which is already very under pressure

31 March

A long getting-to-know (?) session during the morning:

Later the female returned for 10 minutes:

And I thought this was the male (by the slim appearance) defending for a few minutes, no intruder seen:

That was it for the day.

I saw a ringed bird on the nest early this morning but no way of verifying who ir was

I saw a ringed bird on the nest early this morning but no way of verifying who ir was