AX6 Axel and his lovely unringed partner Mistle are bonding well, and Mistle has been threatening to lay an egg - we await developments.
It seems that Mistle has been on the perch & nest all night:
IMAGICAT
Some people think Ospreys are a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Isn't it lovely getting compliments?! Only trouble is, one doesn't deserve them, they should go to LenSpider
He needs the sun, tho - in the evening he just fades the colour:
I chopped him off for Mistle's little performance with the bark she'd brought in earlier - I wonder if she's sprinkling herself with its sanitising properties?
The first time going thru that 6-hour session I glimpsed a half-fish at something-past-8 but it turned out to be wishful thinking
19 May
Lots of buffering overnight caused myriad fragments, just as well we didn't need to see her. (LG Goshawk also failed but not as badly.)
I haven't been thru since daybreak but here's Mistle pre- and post-spiderrays:
I have to take a meal break, SYAS.
WOO HOO! I remembered how to do it! Couldn't resist the rays!
Trevor's fish, served with a side of rays
(c) RSPB Loch Garten
trevor l said:Morning all Fish at 7-03am
Thank you, Trevor !!!
This is what I cropped off - sea creature or UFO?
Morning all. When it's not raining we do enjoy some stunning sun rises. Thank you for noting #1 FISH at 07.02. By 07.38 Axel was calling for the return of the fish. 07.39 Mistle returned with a decent tail and let Axel take it. He flew off, She tidied the cup 07.42 before settling on the eggs. From here she moved a stick which got caught in her beak. 07.59 Axel returned with fish in his talons. 08.00 Mistle slowly got up, ignored the offering and took flight. Axel watched her before taking a bite or two of the fish 08.01 Axel took flight with the leftover. ENS 08.02 Mistle returned with another spindly Y-shaped stick 08.03 she incubated 09.14 a lovely wing stretch 09.15 she stands up and has more wing stretches 09.16 Mistle took flight and Axel landed 09.47 Mistle returned with a heavier Y-shaped stick. Using that, and her wing she moved Axel who took flight. She placed the stick on the front rim, before incubating. 10.08 she isn't happy with the that stick's position and moves it without getting up. No snips, sorry. I'm on my tablet
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SheilaFE said:10.08 she isn't happy the that sticks position and moves it without getting up
And at that point the cam went into a buffer from which it has yet to recover - and the Goshawk cam is the same, so we're in trouble at LG.
10.07.53 Oh dear, I have a blank green screen