Until the webcam is up and running and we go back to Daily Updates on the Nest, this thread is for posting any information about LOCH GARTEN.
Fergus has written a new blog with details of when the Centre will be opening - May 1st.
LINK TO BLOG
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
16.54 LOL she has started to call, looking to the left.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
She's looking expectantly....and he arrives with some straw, and mantles again!!!
Well young man, a lady needs a fish if she is to lay some eggs.
16.57 he flew off, and returned to copulate, Yay, I think that was good. Now go fishing.
I must go at least for a while.
It's started to rain, streaks of it right to left. Would that be an easterly wind. Think of the rising sun on the nest with EJ.
Edit: a brief passing shower I think.
17.43 she is still calling
I haven't seen a fish delivery so far but I suspect AX has started to realise that it's best to eat the head before coming back into sight. Mistle really is a stunning bird, she has such pretty feathers that hang down from her wings. I'm not sure I've noticed this with other females.
Some people think Ospreys are a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
patily said:
That was an interesting little snippet I had not heard before, that dear EJ had a fan club in St Kitts
Today's interesting snippet? And it ties in quite nicely with what we see now - the female waiting for a fish. Read almost any book about Osprey behaviour and if it talks about male Ospreys going fishing it will say that the male flies from the nest, goes on a fishing expedition, and then it catches a fish and then heads directly back to the nest, perches nearby and after eating the head, then delivers the fish to the female. Unfortunately the male Osprey Ollie hadn't read these books. He was caught at the fish farm in the 1990s and a radio (not satellite) tracker was fitted on him (which fell off within a year) and on 3 occasions in particular he was observed to catch a fish - all of these occasions were in the late evening. By cross refencing these dates and times with the detailed observations kept by the volunteers at Loch Garten about the comings and goings of the pair from the nest it was shown that on these 3 occasions Ollie didn't return to the nest until the following morning - and he was 'fishless'. He ate the whole fish himself. Yet again the LG Ospreys re-wrote the books on what we thought we know about their breeding behaviour.
Unknown said:She's been waiting patiently
She finally gave up and flew off @ 21:22. Where's Axel? There's always something to worry about
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