Link to March/April 2023
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After a start/stoppy kinda season, we now have settled couple "URM" (until LG give him a name) and Asha, or Mistle as some would prefer.
Asha is the proud parent of 2 eggs, the father of which being dubious but probably URM, as we hardly saw NN2 (for whom we wish all the best elsewhere) be accepted by Asha.
URM and Asha are similarly marked but distinguishable by certain differences which I may slot in here but I've lost them for the time being.
Asha (R) is looking rather small in this snap because she's crestfallen due to no supper:
Because Asha did so much work on the nest before she had a partner, there hasn't been a lot for URM to do - but he has quite frequently brought in nest material - and his fish provisions have been regular and willingly handed over. He's a promising Osprey dad so far.
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SheilaFE said: When was it he brought in the last fish, yesterday?
This was the last sighting of him this morning, when he chased the first intruder and Asha flew in, initially to co-defend but she ended up incubating while he chased... and we haven't seen him since. That's just according to me. He wasn't around for the 08:00 blue-ringed intruder:
Very worried now, memories of Odin's demise
Hopefully this over-reaction will guarantee us the sight of Brodie with a nice fish in the morning. Dang, I don't think I can stay up for dawn.
17 May
First voices - 03:45 sheep? - 03:51 Cuckoo + mooer of some description.
Asha hasn't flown yet, she's sitting looking around... hopefully? expectantly? curiously?
BTW, at 01:40 I clicked on a tweet by Alan (Doggie) and my laptop shut down instantly. OMG, thought I aghast, have I been invaded? No, it was sheer coincidence that my power cable had slipped out, like it often does but this time I got no warning that the battery was running low. So I last everything that was downloading because the files weren't finalised.
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