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Arrival dates: Laddie - 21st March NC0 - 25th March
Three eggs laid:
11.4.21 (10:18) - NC0 lays an egg
14.4.21 (08:04) - NC0 lays her second egg
17.4.21 (07:41) - NC0 lays her third egg
Hatch dates
Chick #1 - 18.5.21 (37 days) Early hours The first chick has hatched at Loch of the Lowes
Chick #2 - 20.5.21 (36 days) 1:16am The second chick has hatched at Loch of the Lowes
Chick #3 - 22.5.21 (35 days) The third chick has hatched at Loch of the Lowes
25.5.21 - Chick 3 passed away Sad news about our third chick
Absolutely delighted to have watched three precious eggs being laid. Laddie and NC0 have perfected their incubation duties and, through trying times during April, defended them and the nest from multiple intruding Ospreys. Hopefully, it will not be too long until we see three chicks being cared for by their super parents.
Just before 18:15, Laddie delivered a large headless fish to a ravenous sounding NC0
©SWT/LotL
20:12 A beautiful evening albeit a little bit windy - Laddie's tail was being lifted by the strong breeze
20:48 Laddie took a short flight away from the nest but came back within moments
Behind the trees (centre)
Coming back round (left)
And back again to incubate
21:02 NC0 came back with the remainder of the fish. Laddie tried to take it from her on a few occasions but she wouldn't release it until she'd made her way over to the eggs. He seized his opportunity and carried it off nest in his beak.
21:44 Laddie paid a brief visit to the nest
His flight took him beyond the birch area and out of sight
Nightcam on 21:56
IMAGICAT
NC0 seemed to have a peaceful night, she got up once maybe around 01:00+++ to stretch and maybe have a poop but I went rather fast thru that.
Laddie was very suspicoius this morning - the dear blighter was standing by on the nest for ages and as soon as I stopped the download to work on it he flew off so I had to screen-capture that from rollback (in case you can tell it's different quality, the only recorder I have on "this" laptop does wmv instead of mp4, it's heavier) I'm not sure how much flying around he did after that flyaway, the inlet bird might have been someone else.
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NC0 is still incubating.