Poole Harbour Ospreys 2022

Unknown said:

022 climbed right down into the nest cup and took ages fussing about, never actually sitting on the egg, but moving bedding material and shuffling round and round over the egg.

EDIT - I said I'd look for it but changed my mind - which is not in its right frame

Unknown said:

I think the phrase you want is 'in nearly 200 years!'

I put three question marks, thinking it was 200 but needed to make sure rather than misinform, heaven forbid  

Thank you, GardenBirder  

23 April

Unedited video just for the record - and cam#1 was glitchy again - Raven took donut on its third visit of the day:

Fascinating that it remembered the donut was even there!  It must have thought, I know, I fancy that donut, I'll fly to the nest and retrieve it!!!

This is what they are supposed to eat, but I guess it comes under the heading of 'garbage'.

a wide variety of insects, including beetles, caterpillars, and others; also rodents, lizards, frogs, and eggs and young of other birds. Regularly eats carrion and garbage.

scylla said:

Raven took donut on its third visit of the day:

I had forgotten to upload the video of the Raven bringing in that donut, I was saving it to make a beginning, middle and end.

25 April

These 3 little birdies were frightened off by a Raven:

26 April

Very, very rough vid showing that CJ7 has been restless - you'll need to look at the timeline if you are interested in how much has been cut out:

We think CJ7 laid her second egg at 11.40 this morning.

Gets even better!

And a brilliant article by Roy and Tim about our illustrious couple!

The Start of New Osprey Dynasties

Yes, it certainly is a brilliant article, Alison! I have wanted to know this information for as long as CJ7 has been visiting Poole-it nicely combines my two current obsessions--Ospreys and history. Obsessions have waxed and waned over the years, but nature in one form or another and history in one form or another have always featured--currently it is Ospreys and family history (of Ospreys and of people!).

That's great, Ann. I've printed it out so that I can refer to it whenever I forget the details (which will be most of the time...)

Good idea--I should do the same; I usually forget to print things, so need to go searching. By the way, we are booked to visit the area at the same time as we did last year (August)--hope we can meet up. Hope to see a few other folks that week as well.