On the 15th of March the 360 cam went live and an Osprey landed on the nest. It didn't take too long for a pair to begin bonding:
Male: BlueAX6 "Axel" - Ringed at a nest in Glen Affric on 1st July 2016, he was the only survivor of 3 eggs.
Female: Unringed "Mistle" - a very beautiful specimen, according to our long view.
(Unofficial names - LG will decide on names if deemed appropriate.)
This inexperienced couple is bonding well - Axel has been a good provider, they're both enthusiastic nestbuilders, the only element that requires more work is the mating technique.
EDIT 01 JUNE - Axel & Mistle deserted the nest in May, apparently spooked by intruders. As there has been very little activity since then, this thread will continue to the end of the 2021 season, unless dictated otherwise by ospreys.
Photo ©RSPB LochGarten
Cam info kindly provided by Peter @ Carnyx.tv:
There is an identical camera and microphone on this nest as the HD camera at Llyn Clywedog (Osprey). However the nest was struck by lightning. This took out the camera, the camera power supply and the WiFi link back to the centre. We managed to replace the power supply and Wifi but it was too late in the season to climb to the nest.
IMAGICAT
18:45 - after an almost deserted afternoon, this GSW spent well over 10 minutes perched, merely contemplating a lot of that time:
This is the same snap after sharpening in PhotoScape (not the X version), to see the difference on the page:
3 minutes after I emailed Carnyx re the black cam, the picture came back
See how lightly the squirrel scampered thru the foliage on its way home:
The Chaffinch took advantage of a quiet evening
Male was eating for over 7 minutes, the female for 3 - but she kept right to the bottom of the feeder, I had to wait for her to nip up the trunk and nab a frame, then had to get something from the male to match the size, even tho he did give us much better views.
I hope you can see that this is one long Red Squirrel wound around the feeder
Horrid little Great Tit!
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I find that the feeder cam has been black since 08:39 this morning, have written to Peter.
scylla said:
scylla said: I've emailed Carnyx re cam, which is still down.
Reply - "Heavy rain caused electrical issues. An electrician should be onsite Monday".
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That would have been Monday 12 July - no cam and no news since
Some scenes from the feeder:
Littler Chaffie wanted feeding but bigger one flew off with morsel a-beak:
It turned out that the littler one wasn't so little after all, and it could look after itself!
A serene-looking Siskin:
I thought I found a new (to the feeder) species of Tit, but was it a juvenile Coal Tit? The first snap it was tucked in shadow, and the second was flying away, so no good view:
It returned, and in exactly the same position, not quite so shadowed:
Unknown said:hang on ! coal tit pecked great tit
And it was so obvious! Thanks, CIRRUS, title changed. BTW, in view of size difference, the attacker has become "feisty" instead of "nasty"
That's all well and good, but I'd have appreciated an inspection of the possible juvie Coat Tit above. Even RICHARD has deserted me.
Unknown said:coaltit
Missed that! I presume it refers to the smudgy "juvie"? Thanks, CIRRUS