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.
Unknown said:8.13 this morning great shots on Cam 2
No chance
Unless I can record it from rollback while I'm stuffing my phiz
IMAGICAT
Unknown said:8.13 this morning great shots on Cam 2 - 5F Seren sitting on the perch, joined by Dylan and a brown trout, which she took over on the perch and dropped down onto the nest to feed the youngsters - chicks does not seem an appropriate word for them now!
Ta-dah!
I agree about "chicks/youngsters"... and I know I use "osplets" for too long, and a lot of you wouldn't use it at all :(((
30 June
Breakfish:
8B2 - dried blood? dirt?
Lunch (it's hardly stopped raining all morning):
Lunch No2:
You gotta be so careful to find items outside of rainblobs, or you might misdiagnose them!
This was actually a very long stick but it wouldn't show its full glory clearly:
Late teatime:
It's been wind 'n rain all day and the evening is really miserable - but they take it in their stride - Seren had been on the perch for a while earlier, she'd flown off and when next seen she was here:
This scene hasn't changed as i type:
The cams are both in buffer mode.
EDIT
Cam1 seems to have recovered but not Cam2.
Fish analysis for June. More work needed to discover why after 10 June virtually all the trout are brown, and next to no rainbows.
I am mired yet again - but I notice that the perch cam has been buffering for "a long time", I've tried refreshing but no dice.
(Just as well we've got knowledgable peeps monitoring the fish, they're either fish or flounders to me
Except I used to be able to ID a perch when they were frequent... and a mullet and a gar.
I can't get at the nestcam today - here are some scenes from the high perch, starting with one from 30 June that I was waiting to tag something on the end of!
I can't hang on for the changeover tonight.
Great effort thank you Scylla. Particularly enjoyed Dylan tussling with the fish 'innards' - shame he had to drop them in the end