LOCH ARKAIG - THE WOODLAND TRUST - MARCH 2022 TO END OF FEBRUARY 2023

06.38 Misty morning mating in full view - lots of mating since reuniting two days ago - first egg in a couple of weeks!

Nest 1 15.50 Louis visits his old home with a fish, stays until 16.17. Nice to see him there!

Nest two: 14 April to approximately 13.00 after a very quick trawl of the stream.
05.13 & 05.43, skydancing I think. .
08.44, Louis brings a fish but refuses to release it and eats it himself on the nest.
09.10, mating
10.10, a wee bird (blue tit?) on the nest to 10.12.
12.29, Louis brings a fish, again he is not keen to give it up but Dorcha eventually takes it at 12.37 and flies with it at 12.39.
I have to confess that unless they are head on I am finding it difficult to tell them apart. In particular the "flamenco dancer" marking on the back of the head that I used to easily identify Louis from Aila is very similar on both Louis & Dorcha. Ian

Posted on WT chat:
LizB
17.04 There's a third osprey flying around the area near nest 2. Wonder who it is? (One osprey perched in a tree and two flying)

BrendaJ
I wondered what scared them off the nest Liz.

LizB
Probably the other osprey. They both flew to another tree a few hundred metres away and sat for a bit then one took off. Dorcha landed briefly on the nest shortly after, and a third osprey was flying around above the tree with presumably Louis guarding his fish on the branch

Really good videos, Thank you Geemeff

I am not sure who this is on cam 2? Appears to be incubating

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