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
13 September
The little blighters are still with us:
Aran is still here, I just checked and he's on his usual distant tree (not the fish-eating tree).
Oh well, better provide a snap, rough live one:
The warm weather must be keeping him here! Still with us 17.40.
Gail reported him at 16.02, twenty minutes of so before Scylla's pic. Whether he had just arrived then I don't know, as my chat only goes back to 15.45 and there was no mention of him then.
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Birdies LG DU update.
I didn't find Aran with a fish today, here's his fly-off:
Little flock of Tits this morning - made Unlisted cos I'm ashamed it's so grainy:
ARAN !!! In position early this morning !!!
I would have been earlier with that but tried to make a story out of inactivity and treated the sound in the last scene.
No further sightings of Aran today, but we've been treated to this:
Aran's morning fly-off, then the close of the day:
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