March thread.
This post updated 01 June
MrsG returned on the 25th of March and was joined by Aran on the 29th.
(The beginning of the reunion video is a must-see for all fans of MrsG - I'm posting it today 01 June, to remind us of a happy time before the tragedies of May 2021.)
The month of May brought unrelenting wind, rain and corvids, as well as persistent intruder KS8 (among others) - and Aran somehow injured his right wing, rendering him unable to fish. Within a few days all the chicks had sickened and died. It could hardly have been more stressful for MrsG and Aran, but they are recovering together while the caring Glaslyn team is supplying fish each night.
(The chicks' bodies have been removed from the nest by Aran and MrsG, so we shall never know the cause of their deaths.)
In the right margin of this page are links to Glaslyn's posts documenting the misfortunes on the nest.
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IMAGICAT
Heather reported an intruder this morning
9:18 Heather Corfield At 06.35 an unringed male intruder hovers briefly over Mrs G on live stream 1. It looks very similar to the unringed male that visited twice last week. Well spotted by our volunteer.
Aran has just landed, they exchanged gentle contact noises before Mrs G flew to the perch for a break, and Aran took over incubation.
She preens a bit
and checks around
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
SheilaFE said:At 06.35 an unringed male intruder hovers briefly over Mrs G
I'm downloading the wrong stream but MrsG's reaction is "entertaining" - she was cross!
Oooh, she really was cross!
Mrs G has returned to the nest, and there has been a changeover - about three minutes ago
Aran's early incubation stint (I haven't seen a fish yet, but there may have been a brief intruder that MrsG flew off after):
Birdies LG DU update.
FB Post from Glaslyn with a report from Friends of the Ospreys about the Pont Croesor nest. Blue 014, a female relocated to Poole in 2018 and seen in Wales last year has settled on the nest with Z2 Aeron, a 2017 son of the Dyfi. They have been settled for a little while; when the Glaslyn site opens on Monday it will be visible that they are there.