EDITEDI thought we should have a new thread to record the development of the two chicks who hatched successfully at Clywedog this year. UPDATE. One of the chicks was killed in an attempted goshawk predation on 18 July 2023.
The introduction to the nest and happenings between March and June 2023 on this Thread©
5F Seren, the female who has been here since 2020, returned from migration on 25 March 2023. The unringed Dylan, the male since 2016, returmed two days later. Eggs were laid on 13 April, 16 April and 19 April. The first egg hatched on 20 May, and the second egg 2 days after that. The third egg has not hatched and will not do so now.
A highlight was the visit on 12 May from 496, the only chick which fledged from this nest in 2021.
Carnyx Wild provide video streams; the current stream is available here. The link to the feed changes every 12 hours. There should be 2 cameras, but one has not been streamed so far this season due to condensation in the lens; it is hoped this may be changed when the chicks are ringed.
Other links to the Facebook page and John Williams blog are on the introduction to the first thread above.
Grateful thanks to those who are gifted enough to record images and videos from this lovely, mainly tranquil, scene.
UPDATE This thread will be used to record updates on this nest and the Llyn Clywedog area before the start of the 2024 season.
All images are © Carnyx Wild and NRW.
Great Spotted Woodpecker worked on a morsel for ages:
A really good fish, received with lots of noise - if ony we could hear it! I tested for sound on 2 different laptops so I presume there's no sound from the cam:
IMAGICAT
There was plenty of noise on the livestream!
JillR said:There was plenty of noise on the livestream!
What's going to go wrong here next? I can't figure it out
Earlier I watched our dear Seren bring a fish, that was silent too so I've re-recored it from rollback:
Ah, it's a juvie GSW - super video. Thanks Scylla
And, what a good provider Dylan is for his lad . Not the only juvie to make a huge amount of noise over fishies - the Glaslyn boys can rival him
25 August
Someone was on the perch for a few minutes from 05:52, possibly Dylan.
07:57-08:51 - Missing due to switchover - allow for my incompetence but I can't see any activity in that period on YT rollback.
11:43-13:46 was a period of severe buffering.
I haven't seen anyone on the nest all day, but that doesn't mean there was no-one!
PS - Forgot to mention - at some point in the morning the cam zoomed in as if to get a better view of the low perch, then zoomed out again - but not far enough to include any of the high perch, so we could easily have missed visits thereto:
Someone flew in calling but we couldn't see - cam was later refocused to show perch but no-one was on the visible end by then:
And don't ask how come I've got such a clear Osprey voice - I didn't do anything to bring back my sound on that laptop.
And now more chirps, surely must be 8B2, he must be on the near end of the high perch.
18:14 - a glimpse as he flew off with chirps:
And if no time for even a teeny weeny video, here's the snap:
He's back! A few faint tweets and a larger chirp on landing - presumably on the same place on the perch as before.
I can't be hanging about waiting for developments and I'll never find him by sound when I come back