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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Hesgyn flew off as Aran arrived with fish for MrsG. The timing was unfortunate, this was the best I could do trying to get both Aran and Hesgyn in the same shot:
Some ofthe interaction with Hesgyn before the cam went down:
The cam had gone down 15 minutes after that and I didn't get it back until 15:20 so I recorded this from rollback - it was worth it to see Aran looking so "frisky", as I called it, he even attempted a mating but MrsG wasn't having it:
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There's been quite a bit of activity since but don't know if I'll be able to spend time on it.
And their bonding continues today. Aran joined Mrs G in a leafy tree - in the bottom right quarter, near bottom of the light bit of vertical trunk. Mrs G is the higher of the two, with her fish
From Chat
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
Aran returned again at 16.19 and preened, before flying off six minutes later.
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