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.
Imagicat || Tiger's links || 2022 LG Obs
11.28 Mistle returns. Changeover. Still drippy/rainy.
08 June
Get-go +++
Mistle's first flyabout was about half an hour after CC's snap.
Axel took his time taking over, he stayed preening on the perch for over 20 minutes after Mistle flew - I just had to double-check when I saw the times I'd put on the snaps
Mistle's return, no delay in changeover:
She preened quite a lot:
Then !!! I have nothing from 06:07 to 07:50 !!!
Chat doesn't go back to see if anyone noticed cam down
YT rollback shows no fish or other "interesting" activity - but you know how bad I am with that.
Fishless changeover 08:20.
09:44 - Intruder alert from Axel incubating, he flew, Mistle returned and sat on the eggs.
The only possible sign of the intruder was a small splodge in the very top of the screen, but it was when Axel was flapping with bits of feathers flying off due to the "faulty" cam, so who knows what it was.
Except, there was this bird over by the old nest area, I can't tell if it was Wood Pigeon or Goshawk
Eventually Axel returned with a stick:
Later with a huge one!
To be continued...
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Looks unringed.
Yup, unringed intruder.