Link to July 2023 thread
July proved to be a less nail-biting month than June. Brodie re-appeared early on the 1st and delivered fish (including flounder) to the nest every day bar 1 thereafter, with a record count of 7 on the 21st. Asha also fished and delivered a salmon on the 3rd, as well as quite a few sticks, not least one to replace the sticky-up stick on the nest that got removed on ringing day - 12th July. We have 2 boys, as only 7% of those surveyed had predicted. 2C5 (oldest) became Sid (Vicious) and 2C4 (youngest) is Harry (Nilsson). We had some cracking snaps particularly from the PTZ camera, a 2am fish, self-feeding started, and wing-flapping and helicoptering. Bets are on for a fledge or two very early in August. Sid is 58 days and Harry 56 days on the 1st of August
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04 August
Harry spent the night alone - he slept well and was awake preening and pottering from 03:35.
04:45 Brodie brought a small fish (difficult to snap again), which Harry was slow to claim but got a move on once he realised Asha had arrived:
Currently Asha is feeding him - I don't think Sid's been in yet.
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Fish at 10 22 am Extra large
Sid grab's it and attacks Brodie
Trevor's fish @ 10.22
15.30 Asha back to the nest. Fish incoming? Or intruder. Bit of a mantle
16.51. We want fish
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scylla said:I don't think Sid's been in yet
05:04 - Harry had eaten as much as he wanted or could and Asha was feeding herself when Sid arrived so she fed him, and Harry flew off 05:06-ish.
10:22 - Good headless fish, 2C5 is aggressive to Brodie (just a quickie vid I had to get from rollback):
In the run-up to the fish delivery, here was 2C4 on his fave perch:
Male blue-ringed intruder - according to me! I did it all from the PTZ, despite having purposely got the nest cam footage ready to use:
I just got a phone call and was asked what I was doing and I said I'd done an intruder vid and then I looked and here it is, unposted.
Which reminds me, I've been waylaid because I've had to buy a new (second-hand) phone
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19.32 fish! 2C4 on the nest but 2C5 soon flew in. And a snap of the family together