NEWS FROM OTHER NESTS - 2022

You must have been so involved with the family after all this time

Yes scylla.. it's a bit different when you're activily participating with the whole thing.. although it's hard for everyone.

But at least it's now time to look forward and have some fun again.. and fun we had these past two days..

first mum starts feeding dad.. then today a big whopper of a fish in the morning.. and dad taking his time to eat his part first.. about an hour..

Mum decides enough is enough and starts chasing dad for the fish..

Well that is the fun of this barge.. you can see it all happingen (usually the dad eating part is off nest ofc..)..

I made a longer video about the past 2 days:

Thanks, Bart, for posting your video of Mum feeding Dad and of the chase event. I watched both at the time they happened and I can attest that both events were touching, amusing and doubly welcome after the sad demise of chick 2. I was a bit concerned that Dad might drop the huge fish while being chased, but he valiantly managed to hold onto it, luckily! Fingers crossed that the rest of the season is drama free. If chick 1 manages to eventually have its own chicks, it will be interesting to see if its chicks have a tendency to violent dominance, too.

Bart molenaar said:

Mum was quite dominant (in my opion, without really being able to compare) during the incubation period, barely letting dad sit on the eggs and chicks.

In my experience (which is far less than some others' here), Mums are most often grateful for Dads to give them a break from incubation

Thanks for everything, Bart

Good morning - here's the youtube link to Episode 3 of Radio 4's Flight of the Ospreys series for those outside the UK who can't access the BBC. Of the Ospreys being tracked by the expedition, Rutland's 4K is safely on his favourite tree in the Pongo River estuary in Guinea, while the sole surviving Tweed Valley juvenile Glen 708 is still in Spain - but after being within sight of the Portuguese border, has headed north and is back more or less where he first made landfall.

Hi All

I made a long (41 minute) video of number 2 at port lincoln.. I hope you enjoy

SW Florida Bald Eagles - Harriet & M15.

I decided I'd better put them in here, as H spent the night on the nest and M decided to test the nestcup and keep her company.  It sounded very windy, don't know if that was anything to do with it.  There's no egg yet.

lovely captures thanks scylla

Here they were this evening, from rollback cos I'm too tired to check any more downloads: