RECAP
Flora HK0 arrived 30 March 2023
Harry (unringed) arrived 4 April 2023
EGG No. 1 laid 15 April
EGG No. 2 laid 18 April
EGG No. 3 laid 21 April
First expected hatch date around 22 May
LINK TO APRIL 2023
16.49 Unseen intruder as Harry was on the nest.
Harry did a lot of flapping and intruder calling.
Then some mantling and chipping. He’s not nearly as scary as Flora!!
Is this the intruder in the distance?It didn’t come any nearer and Harry settled down again. Danger passed.
Flora returned after eating her fish. At last her crop is looking fuller now.
Flora on the eggs. The rest of the evening has seemed to have gone a bit quieter.
Afternoon snack for Flora. She could see Harry incoming and started calling.
She reverses back waiting on Harry
15.39 Fish delivery, or should I say, tiny wee bit of fish
Flora grabs it in her beak
and flies straight off with it.
Harry watches Flora go then settles down on the eggs.
18.09 Another fish delivery on its way. Flora starts calling.
A bit bigger this time, Harry has had the head.
Handover
Into the beak and off.
18.20 Oh no, Flora is back after 11 minutes. She must’ve dropped her fish. She’s brought a clump of hay.
She places the hay on the nest.
And starts shouting in Harry’s ear.
19.41 Flora did her best to encourage Harry to go fishing again but to no avail.
22.45 Here she is cosied up for the night.
10.11 Fish delivery for Flora, Harry had started on it earlier.
Flora was very vocal as she went to grab it.
It’s always such a quick getaway for Flora. Off she goes, fish in beak.
12.01 Flora returns with the tail and straggly skin of the fish. There is a lot of “quacking” and squawking as Flora is mobbed by corvids as she reaches the nest.
Harry goes for the piece of fish as it’s a wee bit of a struggle to exchange it. However, they manage and Harry flies off with it.
The corvids are still around though and mob Harry straight away.
This turned out to be a tale of a well travelled fish tail!
Flora’s landing with the fish was actually her second. Then Harry brought the tail back twice before being able to take it away to eat it, all because of the mobbing Corvid neighbours.
12.04 Harry’s 1st return
Harry leaves
12.08 Harry’s 2nd return
and his 3rd departure with the fish tail.
He must’ve dodged the corvids this time as there was no quick return.