News from Other Nests 2021
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CAPTIVA OSPREYS - Andy & Lena
I'd been posting in "Forum Friends", here's a snap brought over, for the sake of starting this thread with something!
IMAGICAT
08 May
Alyth
The "bedsheet" slipped off !!! It seemed to fall straight down, couldn't see where it went - I just hope they don't find it and...
Unknown said:He returns now with a squashed plastic drinks bottle
I didn't recognise it as a drinks bottle until the closer look:
09 May
More interaction with nest junk:
Tweed Valley
Cam was good all day, and quite a bit of zooming in.
Female:
Fish ahoy!
He's about to incubate, looking at her up in the tree with fish:
One on each pole:
11 May
Tech-wise, a fragmented morning but a stable afternoon. Osprey-wise, it looked like a good day:
At closing time:
Where's all the rubbish gone?! Didn't see any of that happen (except the main portion of "bedhseet", of course). However it happened, let's keep it this way
FISH:
Lunch on the nest:
All of a sudden, this emerged
Then this was brought in !!!
She took over and sorted her precious nest materials:
Supper arriving, see his satisfied crop:
12 May
Somewhat fragmented but some long sessions too.
Early fish:
Must have been small, she was soon back to take over:
Mid-afternoon fish:
He's about to turn eggs:
Near closing time he'd brought in a tiny clump one-fisted, then decided to sort existing awkward stick:
Thank you, Scylla, things are looking good at Tweed Valley :)
Do you think the Alyth nest had been 'cleared'? Odd to see everything gone and no Ospreys on the nest in your pic...
Sandra P said:Do you think the Alyth nest had been 'cleared'? Odd to see everything gone and no Ospreys on the nest in your pic...
That was a fairly brief changeover that I took advantage of to show there was no obvious junk on the nest. Then more junk started appearing.
Today,sticks and clumps have been brought in, quite a few - is hatching time close? Don't know when the eggs were laid.
Samples of nest material, there were several more:
A book was opened up by the wind!
The "balsa wood" log got blown off - the wind sounds as bad as LG here:
13 May
Lots more non-fish deliveries to the nest
I think these are quite soft sticks he's brought in before and she broke up:
Caused some co-operation today:
This was a rather solid item, not the usual type of clump:
Otherwise, several stick/twiggy/strawy deliveries.
The red can is still there, it gets unearthed every now 'n then.
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The sitter went flyabout soon after opening time, here it's returning:
Turning the eggs and looking around:
Fish! Sitter had gone flyabout again so the fish-bringer took over incubation at this point:
Fish collected:
Having a stretch mid-incubation:
Eating and fish and pooping on high pole:
Nestorising: