GLASLYN - March/April 2023

Thanks for the new thread, Scylla. The volunteers waving at the camera in your video from Saturday were only those who live close enough to the Visitor Centre to get to the meeting easily. The Zoom thing on Sunday was attended by those volunteers who live too far from Glaslyn to make a day trip of it, those like us (in Surrey) and there was at least one from Hampshire, etc.. I expect that Heather and a couple of others just had to repeat everything two days in a row! It is a bit of an expedition for us to go to North-west Wales which is why we can only visit when we are there on holiday. If we lived closer, we would be volunteering there at least once a week, probably more, during the season! And the rest of the week we would be visiting the other Welsh Osprey nests (not that I am in the least bit addicted, you understand!)

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not that I am in the least bit addicted, you understand!

Liar, liar!  Pants on fire

Thanks Scylla for starting up the thread, all the info and lovely portraits.

I can't remember exactly how many seasons Mrs G has been with us but I know it is "many". She is just wonderful.

Here's wishing Mrs G and Aran a safe journey home and a successful season.

Karen, this will be Mrs G's 20th season (should she (and we!) be lucky enough for her to return yet again to her Glaslyn home--my fingers are crossed!) She and her two partners have had chicks fledge successfully for all but two seasons to date. The nest fell from the tree in a storm in 2004 and the chicks died, and then in 2021 the chicks died because Aran suffered an injury which prevented him from providing fish. The timing was very unfortunate since if the chicks had been a bit older they might have survived the short gap in fish supply to the time when Glaslyn was able to provide fish. If they had not done that the chicks AND Aran, probably, would have died. I know that there is always disagreement about whether or not to intervene, both choices understandable in my view, but my position is to simply accept that the people on the ground are doing the best they can, whether or not the rest of us happen to agree. All Osprey folk are passionate about protecting these amazing birds and long may that continue.

Scylla--Lol!! (And neither are any of the rest of us here--addicted, that is!)

Gardenbirder - thanks for all the info and advising this will be Mrs G's 20th season. Truly amazing.

Tonight's view at Glaslyn, horrid weather!

Early morning 'events' - the Stock Doves only spent a minute or two here today, then a teeny Great Tit, then some sheep activity...

Heather has just reported that the internet is down, and I lost the pic and 'chat' on YouTube.
But it has returned! Given the wind and the rain, it wouldn't surprise me if it goes again.

From Pont Croesor cam - Water, water everywhere!

© Bywyd Gwyllt Glaslyn Wildlife