Continued from March/April 2023
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NC0 surprised us all when she arrived back at Lowes first, with Laddie making his initial landing exactly 6 hours later. She laid her three beautiful eggs after almost near-perfect, precise intervals of 72 hours between each one. Both Laddie and NC0 have regularly exchanged incubation duties and have been very attentive to protect their eggs, and nest, from multiple intrusions during April. The hatching window will open around the 10th May, all being well.
Nest Updates
Arrival dates: NC0 - 17.3.23 (07:43) Laddie - 17.3.23 (13:43)
Eggs laid: Egg #1 - 4.4.23 (09:32) Egg #2 - 7.4.23 (09:39) Egg #3 - 10.4.23 (09:10)
Hatch dates: Chick #1 - 13.5.23 (11:59 fully out of shell 12:11) Chick #2 - 16.5.23 (04:19) *Egg #1 - DNH*
Link to blogs and updates during March/April
May Blogs and Updates (published dates)
6.5.23 LotL blog >>> Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – Week 7
8.5.23 SWT video >>> Time for a Wing Stretch and Pre-Hatching Egg Close Up
11.5.23 LotL blog >>> Who’s Been On My Nest? A Closer Look at the Threats and Intrusions Faced by a Pair of Breeding Ospreys
12.5.23 SWT video >>> Osprey Chick Communicates with the Outside World
13.5.23 LotL blog >>>Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – Week 8
13.5.23 SWT video >>> First Osprey Chick of the Season Hatches
14.5.23 LotL blog >>> Concern over male osprey, LM12
15.5.23 SWT video >>> Fish Supper and First Feed for Osprey Chick
16.5.23 LotL blog >>> An update from the osprey nest
17.5.23 SWT video >>> Second osprey chick hatching 16 May 23
20.5.23 LotL blog >>> Osprey Diary at the Loch of the Lowes – Week 9
27.5.23 LotL blog >>> Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – Week 10
Yes we'll see. The video that LotL posted was from a zoom at 15:45 which I didn't comment on...it filled in a gap within my catch up post! lol
09.05.23 - Around approx. 05.20 Blue AE male who hatched in Rothiemurchus in 2009 landed on the nest whilst NC0 was incubating. I always thought he had a nest in the Aviemore/Rothiemurchus area, so why would he be intruding at Lowes.
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Morning Mary and All, Wow, thank you! NC0 tolerated him on the nest for around 5 minutes before flapping him off. Yes, why would he be at Lowes?
5:38 Laddie delivered a fish
Cam zoomed in
Laddie fiddled with a stick
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Sandra I am suffering a brain fog and was getting him mixed up with another Osprey.
Blue AE is Rothiemurchus - the Roy Dennis satellite tracked bird sponsored by Chris Wood LOL.... how could I have forgotten that.
I am getting him mixed up with Blue XE.
7:15 Laddie flew off from the nest - NC0 on the birch. He didn't make any calls and appeared perfectly comfortable incubating beforehand
7:32 Still ENS. Cam is zoomed in on the eggs at present
Laddie returned at 7:34
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Oh bless you! lol
I think Blue AE intruded here last season? I'll have to check that.
Edit: Yes he did - 24.5.22
A Special Guest - Intruding Osprey Rothiemurchus
8:00 Such a beautiful day
Off to work. BFN
Yes, Sandra, you are quite right. He intruded on 25 May 2022.
I am over the moon he has been seen again. He hatched the same year as Rothes from LG. His tag stopped working in November 2014, but I don't know when it fell off. He was seen in Senegal by Chris Wood and Joanna Dailey (Kielder) in 2013 and 2014. In 2015 Chris and Val Gall made another attempt to find him in Senegal, looking in the regular places, but I think failed. It was known at the time he had settled in Perthshire, but had not established a nest or a female. He wasn't seen in the UK in 2016.
In December 2017 Chris and Joanna, returned to Rothie's known wintering site on the off-chance he might still be alive. They had two known guides with them Junkun Jadama (JJ) who works with Rutland in Gambia/Senegal, and Fansu Bojang whom Chris has known for years. They spotted him, with a broken aerial on his back pack. From the current photo, this has now fallen off.
Chris sponsored the tracking costs of Rothie.
I think the above is accurate, but do let me know if I've got anything wrong.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/