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NEWS FROM OTHER NESTS - 2022

scylla
04/01/2022 15:41

News from Other Nests 2021

2022

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

  • 30/11/2022 20:13 in reply to scylla
    I was very excited when I logged on the SWFEC site to see an egg had been laid and I hoped I'd be the FIRST to report it but I should have known that the all-sceeing-scylla would beat me to it. Anyway, good news and thanks for the photo
  • 01/12/2022 17:38 in reply to scylla

    But without Samson, how can Harriet raise a chck ??       Worried 

  • 01/12/2022 18:06 in reply to Cirrus
    Yes, what will they do (if anything--after all, it is nature and not Disneyland!) if Samson does not reappear? I'm with you, Cirrus--difficult to watch, especially this time of year which can be depressingly dreary. I may concentrate elsewhere and only dip in for news now and again. At the risk of wishing my life away, I say roll on the seasons to spring and the arrival of our Ospreys!

    Kind regards, Ann

  • 01/12/2022 19:02 in reply to Cirrus
    Unknown said:

    But without Samson, how can Harriet raise a chck ??         

    Cirrus and Ann,

    Samson is the missing male bald eagle partner of Gabrielle at NE Florida eagles (no eggs there). Harriet's partner is M15 at SW Florida eagles.

  • 02/12/2022 01:40 in reply to Sandra
    Thanks for setting us right, Sandra. Thought the pairing didn't sound quite right but busy elsewhere and could not double check it; wish I had time to follow the Bald Eagle nests but I only read comments from others on other sites including this one. Just recalled reading that one male was missing and a female had a broken wing but never matched the right males and female together. Hey ho, live and learn. Maybe I'll stick to Osprey commenting henceforth...possibly...but no promises!

    Kind regards, Ann

  • 02/12/2022 14:09 in reply to Sandra

    OH

    Thank you Sandra (what else can a girl say when she is so far out of the loop.          Frowning2   )

  • 03/12/2022 04:05 in reply to Cirrus

    I could have been clearer - apologies to all who were misled re the 2 sets of Florida partners.

    A brief sketch of recent history, totally from flaky memory:

    SWFL

    Harriet & Ozzie >>> Harriet & M15

    A few years ago Ozzie went missing - he was found injured and CROW treated and rehabilitated him, but by the time he tried to pick up with H again she had taken up with a lovely young male M15, who had helped her stay safe in Ozzie's absence - despite her having a youngster in tow for a while.  I think that M15 drove Ozzie away, the latter's revival did not last long.

    NEFL

    Romeo & Juliet >>> Samson & Gabrielle

    After years of unchallenged ownership of the nest, suddenly they were subject to intense agression, particularly from a female - Juliet was driven off and no eaglets (only just hatched) survived, despite heroic efforts by Romeo assisted by a visiting female dubbed A2 (IIRC but it doesn't matter exactly).  Eventually the nest was taken over by a new young male, who, the powers that be decided, was R&J's offspring Samson (his sister was Delilah, whereabouts unknown) and he was joined by none other than A2, who got called Gabrielle when the couple had firmly bonded.

    NEFL 02 December

    Another visitor for Gabrielle, she wasn't impressed and flew off leaving him on a branch.  Was he mud-washed or was this a rare and interesting plumage variation?

    Interesting - the male who visited 28 Nov was also dirty-headed, but in a different way:

    And this was Samson in 2014 - courtesy of Carol Craig of Osprey Friends FB but I just plonked a frame on it PDQ:

    IMAGICAT