LOCH OF THE LOWES - MAY 2021

  • billy r said:

    I don't have sound on but something spooked NCO and she flew and now cam is down. I think there may have been people around

    I couldn't hear anything on scroll back, Billy, though my sound was on low. She headed towards the birch but unsure if she landed or went beyond it. She did return after only a short time away. I managed to capture these while scrolling through footage since my last post, when I clicked on 'live' the cam had stopped streaming 6 minutes previously

    A zoom on the eggs, two on show here, the other presumably being hidden behind the clump of hay

    She returned gripping a piece of fish(?) in her left talons

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  • Was this right before cam went down as she had only recently just returned. It was her reaction to make her fly away that made me think something was wrong and also cam going down immediately
  • Hope all is well this close to hatching.

    Richard B

  • Webcam back on and NCO incubating I think
  • billy r said:
    Was this right before cam went down as she had only recently just returned. It was her reaction to make her fly away that made me think something was wrong and also cam going down immediately

    No, not immediately before, Billy, I didn't scroll further forward once she had sat back on the eggs, there wasn't much more to go through. 

    Edit - I've just checked the time I added to my pics when saving them - 18:05-18:07, if my calculation from the LS was correct

  • billy r said:
    Webcam back on and NCO incubating I think

    Yes, NC0

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  • Unknown said:
    Hope all is well this close to hatching.

    Absolutely, Richard!

  • 20:38 NC0 left the nest. She'd picked up what looked like a fish tail that was in the nest cup before taking off.

    By the time she'd reached the birch area, Laddie flapped down (it appeared from the nest tree) to incubate

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  • 20:56

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  • 21:16 NC0 returned, flying from the birch

    Flew past the nest and came in to land from the left

    Laddie ready to leave the nest

    NC0 at 21:24

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