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
Cam is flashing between day and night at the mo.
Thank you for all yesterday's info and snaps, SHEILA
Tawnies calling last evening. Not as clear as it might be, had to try to remov constant "engine" noise:
The Ravens, tho unseen, were near and loud this morning:
Nothing on the nest at the moment, but...
10:13 Heather Corfield Aran was on the A498 tree between 9.28 and 9.44. A second osprey passed him at 9.33. Possibly Mrs G as I heard no chipping. I did hear chipping around 9.47.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
All very quiet, not even the sounds of coos or bas!
10:57 Heather Corfield It will probably be Becci on cameras at the moment. I am on my day off.
MrsG has been on the perch since (I'll tell you later), Aran has now landed on the nest.
There was some alarming buffering a few times overnight:
MrsG flew in with a chirp - I couldn't tell if an intruder had alerted her, but anyway she stayed the night and had a goodish sleep after some hunching and preening, then Aran arrived at his usual time in the morning.
Aran did a frisky fly-over which I'm doing later, or this will never get posted.
Suffice to say, they'e both gone.
scylla said:Aran did a frisky fly-over
Then back to the nest and soon he flew off - MrsG flew not long after, she was buzzed by a small coppery bird (it looked quite bat-like at one moment) and either it or another seemed to chase after her - all rather quick and unclear: