I think this will be an interesting season at Loch Arkaig - who is going to take residence is the big question?
For me it doesn't matter who, just as long as the nest is occupied.
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Fish number four arrives and causes a bit of a fankle - edited video from 16.19 to 16.47 arrival and departure
Monday 5th September: still here!
06.23.21 First Hoodie arrives, perches looking right at home
06.23.50 Second arrives, both hunt and peck on the nest
06.24.21 Louis approaches with fish in talons and abandons landing, two crows on nest
06.25.04 Sarafina arrives
06.25.10 Louis returns and delivers a tail, possibly the leftovers of the fish Sarafina was shouting for off-nest last night
06.55.44 Sarafina departs and the Hoodies move in
09.40.42 Fish number two is delivered, a whole Brown Trout
09.40.29 Sarafina arrived moments earlier, no Hoodies (yet)
10.20 Sarafina’s still there, eating and squeaking
13.08.15 Louis arrives with fish number three, headless Brown Trout
Sarafina heard in the background before Louis arrives
13.08.46 flash flypast right to left
13.09.02 Sarafina arrives, grabs the fish, Louis leaves
Oh no! Stop thief!
13.13.02 Sarafina’s mobbed by crows, startles, flies off dropping the fish on the nest, crows pounce on it
13.13.10 Sarafina flies past right to left
13.13.21 Sarafina returns, crows leave
13.13.52 Crows mob, she leaves again minus fish
13.14 Crows got her fish, two of them, think it's lost to her now
13.55.19 Fish number four, headless BT
13.55.33 Sarafina arrives, Louis hands over and goes
14.00.17 Sarafina leaves with the fish
17.13.06 Fish number five, headless trout
17.19.32 Hoodies arrive and Sarafina departs with a lovely hover