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LOCH GARTEN June 2022

CRinger
01/06/2022 05:55

All quiet on the Osprey front. Mistle started gently food soliciting, then quiet, then stood up to reveal.........

,, what appeared to be a half eaten rainbow trout! No doubt Scylla will be able to get a much sharper image than me. All this happened about 5:45.  It was as stiff as a board. When was that delivered?

Afrer faffing around getting images 1 of them has come back to the nest and is incubating - can't tell which. 

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. 

  • 03/06/2022 17:10
    16:54 Mistle is back. It was a 22 minute fish. Sorry about the 3 minute discrepancy.
    17:08 Axel still on nest, requiring ear plugs, due to Mistle's constant, insistent food soliciting to get him off the eggs.
    I do so hope this is not a precursor to more aggression - he does seem to like incubating!

    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. 

  • 03/06/2022 17:24
    17:20 Axel, having listened on his newly acquired headphones (which Scylla will in vain to try to capture) to many verses of 'Shaddap Your Face' eventually relents and leaves trhe nest.

    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. 

  • 03/06/2022 17:26
    17:21 Peace reigns at last. All is quiet on the Osprey front. No doubt Syclla will check many fronts - but all in vain. Don't worry about Axel's headphones Scylla - they were not a good fit anyway.

    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. 

  • 03/06/2022 18:26
    Really, what is wrong with this pair again today? Good they settle eventually and that fish has been delivered.

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  • 03/06/2022 20:47 in reply to CRinger

    I'm fit for nothing, CRINGER, due to the heat today.  Always some excuse, I hear you say.

    Two fish sandwiching a pose from Axel when he managed to get Mistle off the eggs:

    This one I narowed down to 0.433 seconds and lightened/contrasted/sharpened to get a viewable view, so don't say I don't do nothing for you Confounded

    As for "what's wrong with them?" - they've spent companionable time on the nest several times today, so I have no idea.  Maybe they're just very on edge, given the new experience for them both?

    IMAGICAT

  • 03/06/2022 21:17 in reply to scylla

    scylla said:

    I'm fit for nothing, CRINGER, due to the heat today.  Always some excuse, I hear you say.

    Two fish sandwiching a pose from Axel when he managed to get Mistle off the eggs

    .

    This one I narowed down to 0.433 seconds and lightened/contrasted/sharpened to get a viewable view, so don't say I don't do nothing for y

    The next time yoiu hear me say you never do nothing for me is the 12th of never...... and we both know fhat's a long, long time! (As much as I hate Elvis the quote is apt)

    Bless you Scylla! 

    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. 

  • 03/06/2022 21:20 in reply to scylla

    scylla said:

    I'm fit for nothing, CRINGER, due to the heat today.  Always some excuse, I hear you say.

    Two fish sandwiching a pose from Axel when he managed to get Mistle off the eggs:

    .

    .

    This one I narowed down to 0.433 seconds and lightened/contrasted/sharpened to get a viewable view, so don't say I don't do nothing for you

    As for "what's wrong with them?" - they've spent companionable time on the nest several times today, so I have no idea.  Maybe they're just very on edge, given the new experience for them both?

    .

    Simply BREATHTAKING in clarity.

    (Bows on 1 knee).

    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. 

  • 03/06/2022 21:27
    Going off topic.... did you know that priot to about 1975 about 50% of the fish delivered to this nest were identified as pike? this changed rapidly after the FF opened at Rothiemurchus in the mid 1970's - by hten 90% were identified as trout (a mixture of brown and rainbow) and only 10% pike. Does anyone remember a pike being brought to the nest this season? Not me....... See Shelia's lovely earlier postabout fish i/d pike is usuaully quite distinctive.

    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. 

  • 03/06/2022 21:29
    ...... deeply forked tail.

    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. 

  • 03/06/2022 21:43 in reply to CRinger

    Shared in absentia without Sheila's permission but I am not unduly worried - she has only taken 1 tablet with her on her jolly hols and the effects are sure to be worn off by now...

    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.