BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS - 2022

The single chick at Balgavies is coming along nicely.   Some fabulous photos from Darren, 

Mrs.Green BF 

KR3 

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BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS PAGE

 

Superb pics from Darren, Mary. Mrs Green BF having a bad 'hair' day in the first one? lol

Thanks so much for sharing :)

As far as we know Karen, the chick is OK.  As found on the path and not on the island we can only presume that it was either forced to fledge or had fledged. 

From their FB page
15.21 Mary Rodgers It's all in hand SWT going to put it back in tree later tonight

Mary Rodgers may belong to the SWT, but I'm not sure.

Thank goodness it was near to fledging.  It could have been much worse

MaryGK said:

As far as we know Karen, the chick is OK.  As found on the path and not on the island we can only presume that it was either forced to fledge or had fledged. 

Thanks Mary, I was hoping you were around with your close connection to this nest.

Thank goodness the chick is OK and found quickly as it must have been very vulnerable.

Also thanks Sheila for the update.  I see the SWT are going to put the chick back in the "tree" (and not nest) so is it the case that the nest has indeed collapsed?

Just reading some comments and this sounds off the alarm bells!!!

I don't doubt for one minute that the SWT know what they are doing but reading adults flying around confused with nesting material seems to indicate no nest so hopefully when the chick is put back in the tree then the adults manage to feed it??

Just seems quite a big ask just now for the chick to balance and be fed

On 12 July the youngster was flapping on the nest, so unless someone has been watching the nest closely, perhaps it was able to flap down to the ground. It's all conjecture really, it was just fortunate that someone became aware the nest had fallen.

I do know more but sadly as there has been so little interest in this nest on here I won’t bother.   Some of the best photos of Ospreys are posted on this thread but no one seems interested any longer in them, which is all very sad really.      

All I hope and pray for is that everything goes alright tonight as at the moment I am completely gutted about what has happened.

PS. Mary Rogers does not work for the SWT. 

Darren takes some brilliant photos, and not just Ospreys.
I chat to him on fb, but I'm not really sure what to say to him in this case, it's all very sad, but at least the chick seems ok.

I think its more a case of less people on here now and more nests to follow, which makes it seem that people aren't interested.