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LOCH GARTEN - May 2022

scylla
01/05/2022 04:21

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

  • 29/05/2022 16:25

    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. 

  • 29/05/2022 16:26

    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. 

  • 29/05/2022 16:27
    That is an 18 minute fish if ever I saw one.

    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. 

  • 29/05/2022 16:51
    16:49 Mistle returns - so it was a 29 min fish.

    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. 

  • 29/05/2022 16:56
    I haveto laugh at Axel - he food solicits to get her back to the nest when she is eating, then when she gets back he is SO reluctant to stop incubating - so Mistle flies off again and he is content. Go figure!

    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. 

  • 29/05/2022 17:32
    Question: Why did we see, particularly in the 1990's, different reactions from the resident pair of Ospreys to intruding Ospreys:

    1, Alarm call and defending of the nest to chasing the intruder away.
    2, No alarm call but an adult circling peacefully with the intruder until both disappeared.

    A possible explanation is that in 2 the intruder was recognised as a chick from the nest frpm a previous year (probably male as they tend to return much closer to their natal nests to prevent in-breeding, rather than females than tend to disperse longer distances) BUT,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, when they fledged from the nest they were in juvenile plumage............. having returned at least 2 years later they would look - TO US ............. much more different!

    Explanations for this beaviour VERY welcome!

    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. 

  • 29/05/2022 19:38 in reply to CRinger
    Thanks Scylla for poiting me to the appropriate thread,
    BYW - have posted 2 clothes pegs for your nose when you get Sheila's post,
    Hope the nrighbours don't complain and call thre council.

    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. 

  • 29/05/2022 21:56
    Cuckoo still doing his stuff at 21.56
  • 30/05/2022 05:50 in reply to CRinger
    CRinger said:
    have posted 2 clothes pegs for your nose

    What makes you think my nose requires TWO clothespegs, CRINGER?  You're right, by the way Grin 

    Her Dear Ladyship is sitting patiently in the rain - I haven't checked the morning yet.

    EDIT

    She took a comfort break @ 04:45, no other activity of great note.

    IMAGICAT

  • 30/05/2022 08:08 in reply to scylla

    scylla said:

    CRinger said:
    have posted 2 clothes pegs for your nose

    What makes you think my nose requires TWO clothespegs, CRINGER?  You're right, by the way  

    I always work on the assumption that it is better to be safe than sorry and indubitably use a sledgehammer to crack a nut!

    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.