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GLASLYN OSPREYS - APRIL 2021 to end of FEB 2022

scylla
31/03/2021 23:55

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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All pictures and videos in this thread are (link to website)

©Bywyd Gwyllt Glaslyn Wildlife

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IMAGICAT

  • 07/07/2021 05:20 in reply to Gardenbirder

    Thank you for that optmistic tale, GARDENBIRDER - hope for the future! Purple heart

    I'm still hoping to have time to go back a few days and find MrsG on fir, as posted by SHEILA, to see if a portrait can be done, which would be a bit different setting from what we're used to.  This distance is rather hard for the cam to hold focus on, tho.

    Then he flew to this oak and stayed for a while, flying off downwards and out of sight:

    Hmm:

    Our royal couple was also seen on the nest together and in other distant trees.

    Don't know where MrsG roosted but Aran was here - I thought she was with him but, I assure you, the one on the right was a COW Grin

    IMAGICAT

  • 07/07/2021 05:35 in reply to scylla

    07 July

    They arrived approx 04:30, she marginally first:

    She joined him on the nest and after a while he flew - when he returned she thought he might have a fish but no, they both ended up flying off and it's been ENS since.

    It must be packing up time, I wonder what's left to cover?  Tick-tock-tick-tock goes one's little brain Grin

    IMAGICAT

  • 07/07/2021 12:30
    Just as I looked in 12:19 they both landed on the nest screecjhing and mantling And now for the last3=4 minutes there has been sky dancing but nothing seen
    The sky dancing has stopped and Aran and Mrs G are still on the nest I was going to say quieter but Mrs G called and has flown Aran just standing.....no he's not He decided to move a stick
  • 07/07/2021 12:35 in reply to scylla
    A mighty clever Cow to get up there! Joy

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  • 07/07/2021 20:43
    We have had a wonderful day at Glaslyn today. Warm, sunny and good viewing.
    Met Ann (Gardenbirder) and her husband, Jimmy, so nice to put faced to names. It was lovely chatting with you both.
    Quite a lot of activity, at one point, 4 birds in the air, and one still on nest, so a least one mystery bird, but too high to see any rings.
    Fabulous day.
  • 07/07/2021 21:49 in reply to Cathy
    Gosh, you are doing a tour of the Welsh nests, Cathy. How wonderful for you and your husband! (extremely jealous here! lol)
    Great that you were able to meet up Mr and Mrs GB as well as see lots of activity! :)
  • 08/07/2021 05:14 in reply to Cathy
    Cathy said:
    We have had a wonderful day at Glaslyn today

    Super, CATHY! Blush

    I completely lost yesterday @ Glaslyn from my mind, and to think there was all that excitement going on Astonished   And now I'll be far to late to get info from Chat Frowning2

    Off I go to glean something... anything!

    IMAGICAT

  • 08/07/2021 05:51 in reply to scylla

    And I wonder where that norty SHEILA was, too?  In the garden again? Hugging 

    07 July

    Early morning clump delivery by Aran:

    He didn't stay long, and was next found on one of his trees... then it rained for an hour ??? ... that was up to about 11:00:

    Aran was still "out there" for some time, until he flew in with MrsG to ward off intruders - no-one seen:

    One of them was then seen in the mass of oaks, then Aran was on a fir - his right wing looks quite droopy in this pose:

    (Well I'm having to post because this box is refusing to accept snaps, maybe I'll be able to edit in...)

    EDIT

     

    ^^^ there ya go!  That's a spearmint with a new non-frame I found Grin

    Another view of right wing - the "joint" - as he flies to nest:

    MrsG hoped he had a fish:

    After about 15 mins they both flew. That's up to something past 17:00.

    Some rough 'n hasty snaps thru the evening:

    MrsG defended briefly on the nest, I don't know who flew over - maybe Aran had shifted himself:

    She was back again to fend off a corvid, Aran was out on his most usual tree, MrsG came back to roost for the night, having a jolly good preen:

    IMAGICAT