NEWS FROM OTHER NESTS - 2022

Alyth

Very atmospheric view on the nest this morning.

Juvenile arrives at  05.46 and manages to find the remains of the flounder on the nest.

After muching away for about 20 minutes, juvenile eventually leaves at 06.04 taking the remains of the flounder.

No sign of Dad within this time.

Very lovely morning snap, JANNI :)))

Just a few seconds of the "phenomenon" we first noticed at LG in the night:

Thanks scylla!

I was going to update the Alyth thread - Dad turned up with a fish at 10.04 and has been looking around for his offspring. No sign! Currently (10.32) Dad is tucking into the fish himself!

I have to go out so can't keep checking for a while.

How odd that both kirk and Tweed have lost their ways Kirk is a special worry as Tweed could safely spend his time in Portugal

How odd that both kirk and Tweed have lost their ways Kirk is a special worry as Tweed could safely spend his time in Portugal

Kirk is an interesting case… was looking on information on how Ospreys usually migrate from Ireland, but there aren’t many (none?) Ospreys there.
Will he try to fly from Kirk to Portugal, or go via the uk? If the winds are good he might succeed in a direct flight, but it isa pretty long stretch I guess

01 September

Tweed Valley

Bart molenaar said:

Glen remains safely at his nest area in Peebles

Indeed - but I can't find him getting fed.  Maybe he's feeding himself when the cam is not transmitting.

Here are today's sightings in a roughly chopped vid:

Alyth

Juvie flying empty-beaked/taloned after waiting futilely (but, as I think JANNI reported, Dad had been on the nest with a fish earlier, no-one collected it):

I forgot the time for this one:

In the evening I suffered a mind-boggling tech disaster (details of which I will spare you, not least because I couldn't explain if I tried)... hence nothing more to report, the Alyth evening was lost.

Alyth

There isn't a huge amount to report since scylla's last post.

06.04 Juvenile landed on the perch vaguely calling.

06.23 Searches around the nest and finds many small scraps of fish bits and skin.

06.41  Jumps to perch and starts a long preening session until leaving 07.07

Nothing much until about 09.50, looks around and leaves again.

11.27 Arrives back on the perch and starts calling.

11.39 Moves to the top of the cam

11.46 Efforts rewarded when Dad arrives with a "proper" fish (I don't claim to recognise any variety of fish but I know it isn't a flounder which has been the only offering in past days).

Still shouting at the fish and moving it around the nest, finally starts to eat his late breakfast.

Tweed Valley

Glen spent a long time on the perches and nest during the first couple of hours (as far as I'm doing before packing up):