I start this thread with a heavy heart, as Brodie hasn't been seen at all on Friday 30th June. The last fish delivered to the nest was at 21.11 on 28 June, over 48 hours ago. Brodie was last sighted at 09.10 hours on 29 June, over 36 hours ago.
Chick 1 hatched 'early morning' on the 4 June and chick 2 overnight on 6 June. One egg didn't hatch (maybe number 1?). There were lots of intruders during the month of June, including KL5, and last year's male Axel on the weekend of 17/18th. Brodie has disappeared before for a couple of days, and no fish were delivered over the first weekend after hatching on 10/11th June so maybe we should keep the faith and cross all eyes, toes and fingers that Brodie will come good, recover from whatever keeps him away from his nest and chicks, and deliver a stonking fish first thing on 1 July.
Link to June 2023 thread
scylla said:A FLOUNDER ??? !!!
IMAGICAT
'What the hell is that?'
(c) RSPB Loch Garten
Unknown said:What the hell is that?'
Haha! I thought I did one of those but no, and also one showing Brodie's breast pattern for BART, but no! Wuss going on here?
Any road up, we've got TWO big fish on the nest:
scylla said:Brodie's breast pattern for BART
I think we are victims of varying light, smudgy lenses (altho ours have survived amazingly well so far this season), angles, and low-res distance views:
EDIT - Forgot to mention the strange flounder with osprey head.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Some highlights from the day so far:
Asha's dawn break:
Lynn L said:and the other lying there also
Asha caught "the other lying there also", CATLADY - she's amazing
My final caption was going to be "I can't see Brodie fishing again this evening after dealing with a large, tough Flounder"... but as I clicked to type it, MovieMaker crashed
So when WMM kindly restored the project, I didn't push my luck
Download crashed @ 20:00, I'll have to leave it several hours before retrying.
Unknown said:now sheltering the chicks from the rain
One for RICHARD?
Can we tell if the pink was actually part of the fish?