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
It's a nice afternoon up there. One of the chicks is gular fluttering
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Asha may be away fishing. 21.16 Kerplunk on the cam post. No fish I guess
Chicks have begun to complain under Asha. She’s been covering them well.
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Thank you for the Mistle Thrush, SHEILA - here's a snippet with the sound upped and synced, but we can still hardly hear it:
Trevor wrote the following post at 15 Jul 2023 5:15 PM:
proper wingflaping at 17 10 by chick i thought it going well in the wind
#1 2C5 Sid is testing - but later #2 2C5 Harry surprised me when he was so indignant when Asha landed on the campost (but we couldn't see her on the PTZ, she was right on the end, not on the cam itself).
BTW
Before I made the joke about Sid & Harry, I was mulling over how to avoid having to type number/letter combo, which I always trip up on - I was thinking Toossifo' and Toossifi' - but we need a strong apostrophe on the ends for it to work, and our typeface isn't up to it, IMHO.
IMAGICAT
16 July
Where's TREVOR ??? !!!
FISH !!! !!! !!!
EDIT
Nestcam approach - no detail, but at least it shows the condition and shape:
5.42 Good sized fish.