Link to May 2023 thread
Asha is the proud parent of 3 eggs, the father of which being dubious but probably URM - now called Brodie - as we hardly saw NN2 (for whom we wish all the best elsewhere) be accepted by Asha. Brodie had a lot of trouble fending off intruders which has made him a bit flaky in the fish catching and delivery department. Poor old Asha didn't eat for over 2 days last week. The main intruder was KL5, who seems to have stopped hanging around so much now, which is good as we approach hatch date and the need for fish will ramp up.
A scylla-super-snap of the happy parents-to-be
Also, courtesy of scylla, here are the laying dates;
25 April - egg 1
28 April - egg 2
01 May - egg 3
Unknown said:I tuned in to see a fish delivery at 13.26! Before she had finished with the other fish.
Good morning, CC! I haven't even got there yet* - the "other" fish was actually FISH #2 @ 10:15 !!!
*Because of being tied up with Manton Bay and Clywedog ringings, moreover not too successfully !!! Plus I'm trying to air-fry a frozen pasty and it's not going well
EDIT - after 2 burns on forearm thru ill-advised tampering with a hot basket.
The PTZ was focused very closely on Asha with fish #2 when #3 arrived, it zoomed out hastily but too late:
IMAGICAT
SheilaFE said:I only have a phone, again. Chat reports 10.15 #2 FISH delivery.
Good sized one, too. Then, as always, she just continues to screech at the top of her voice until the poor guy leaves the nest, before beginning to feed the chicks. The long suffering Brodie is for sure getting some kind of training!
Imagicat || Tiger's links || 2022 LG Obs
Fish at 13.27 chat says. I'll see if I can find it. Here 'tis
(c) RSPB Loch Garten
Lovely evening
I keep getting the orange box stating "You've gone offline. Attempting to reconnect" every couple of minutes but I'm not going offline because the downloads are uninterrupted.
I think this was the latest that Brodie's delivered so far - Asha couldn't figure out how to get past the chicks to get to the fish, I've not edited it so you can see how dozy she was - and Brodie was very good, he was able to release the fiish and leave it on the nest.
Quite substantial:
25 June (just!)
A bat flew around the nest:
Asha has had a couple of breaks from the nest, now she's sitting up alert in the early daylight.
25 June FISH !!! !!! !!!
A whopper !!!
scylla said:
FISH !!! !!! !!!
Great snaps of a superhumongous fish
Well, chat told me there was an earlier fish at 05.36.