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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.
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 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
©SWT/LotL
Richard B
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
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
20:56
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