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.
No sign of Axel yet. I'm off till later, happy watching to everyone :)))
IMAGICAT
10.27 and the two bobs are looking strong and she's up practise feeding them but no fish. No sign of bob 3.
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A brief round up so far.
07.21 Sun's rays, begging chicks when Mistle stands up
08.05 Axel drops in
and leaves within a minute
09.06 Mistle has a flyabout.
09.07 Chicks up and begging for food – hungry
09.11 Mistle tries to feed nothing to begging chicks
10.25 Mistle brooded, snoozing until 10.45.
She stood up and was calling hopefully. Chicks were begging again and once more Mistle practised feeding a hungry chick.
10.28 Brooding again with wriggly osps under her.
12.34 Mistle's calls getting louder. She gets up, osplets emerge, she calls. Osplets beg for food and she faux feeds them. And calls some more. They are so hungry: both osplets begging, with heads held very high and large gaping mouths that Mistle feeds air into..
12.41 Mistle took flight. Osplets have a bit of argy bargy.
12.43 Mistle returns. Her instinct to feed the osplets is so strong.
12.44 Mistle moves a cushion!
and broods again
13.51 She checks the osplets beneath her – they must be restless again! Peeking out, and begging again
13.52 Two hungry osplets, begging again]
CC reported that Axel popped in again at 12.38, but I couldn't find him, I'm sorry.
No fish to far today, and one possibly two visits by Axel - and another very windy day, making fishing conditions difficult.
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Edit: from chat - Lotl, Alyth and Arkaig only one fish each this morning as far
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Thank you for all updates, particularly this one, which answered my concerns succinctly
Unknown said:10.27 and the two bobs are looking strong and she's up practise feeding them but no fish. No sign of bob 3.
Some of the 09:08 "air feed", just for an example.
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SHEILA, it's so easy to miss short visits, I have to narrow down the clip to a few minutes - I do not know how you cope with YT rollback (likewise SANDRA, who's a miracle-worker). Anyway I did manage to find Axel's 12:38 visit, reported by CC - if only it contained a fish :(((
I am eschewing any aggression - Mistle has been sitting tight for hours.