Link to first page opener - here
Link to July 2023 - here
Recap:-
LJ2 returned 31 March 2023
LM6 returned 4 April 2023
Egg No.1 laid 20 April - Hatched 27 May (37 days gestation)
Egg No. 2 laid 23 April - Hatched 29 May (36 days)
Egg No. 3 laid 26 April - Hatched 1 June (37 days) Sadly, passed away on 3rd June.
Chicks ringed 7 July
No. 1 - 7B5 42 days old (Female) 1755g
No. 2 - 7B6 40 days old (Female) 1730g
Chicks named 17 July after Brenig FB vote
7B5 - Dilys ( Meaning perfect, true, reliable)
7B6 - Mari (Meaning Star of the Sea) (Thank you Sandra for finding out the meanings of these beautiful Welsh names)
Chicks fledged 23 July
Mari first, (16.22) followed by big sister, Dilys 4 minutes later. (16.26) (55 and 57 days old respectively)
Today 1 August - Dilys is 66 days old and Mari is 64 days old.
It has been a wonderful month for this family. A plentiful supply of fish saw the chicks grow quickly into juvenile ospreys. As did the youngsters of last year, these two took turns to feed and with LM6 fishing as well now, they have often had a fish each at the same time. Mari, has turned out to be the faster developer of the two, practising fishing off various perches on 30 July (aged 63 days old) and on 31 July she started taking the fish off the nest to eat.
The next few weeks will see Dilys and Mari practise and hone their skills in preparation for becoming independent birds and tackling their long migration ahead of them.
Dilys and Mari at the beginning of the month
and now
LM6 and LJ2 getting some chill time together.
All captures and videos ©️ NWWT, Welsh Water, Brenig Osprey Project
It looks like LM6 and Mari may have left.
LM6 was last seen on the preening perch at 08.59 with Mari. She gave one last look towards the camera
then flew off down over the water
heading in this direction then disappeared out of view.
Mari was last seen on the preening perch at 14.33. She’d been there an hour.
Not long after she arrived the cam operator started looking around the area. I wonder if they were looking for LM6?
That looks more like Dilys than LM6
13.53 Mari was very quiet, just sitting looking all around13.57 spotting fish
13.59 She stared in this direction a lot
14.29
14.33 One last half turn of the headAnd off she went
She flew out of view of the camera.
Sunday 27;August
Good morning It’s so quiet here. 06.54 Dilys stretched her wings on the nest perch.
She flew to the tall tree
Magnified
07.1407.30 She stayed there for just over half an hour sitting very quietly.
07.41 Dilys left the tree
07.41 and flew to the nest
she was only there for a few seconds, I nearly missed her visit.
09.18 Dilys returned to the nest. Her calling could be heard off nest beforehand.
Something caught her eye down in the water
09.19
EShe tracked it
09.19 Then took off
flying downwards.
10.35 Dilys could be heard calling in the background and lands on the nest.
10.36
10.38 Not a long stay, she soon departs to the perch.
13.30 Dilys flew onto the nest screaming and looking upwards.
13.32 An Osprey flew over the water
It then flew past the nest
13.34
13.53 Seems to have quietened down. Dilys left
Looking at the PTZ camera, they were mobile around the area at the time of Dilys landing on the nest screaming.
They found her on the tall tree. She was looking upwards. (The clocks are out of sinc)
13.32
She started flapping and calling.
She flew to the nest continuing to flap and call.
13.34 An Osprey flew overhead
It then flew past the corner of the screen. (Magnified)
The camera then moved to the preening perch and it was LJ2.
The way Dilys was reacting, I thought an intruder had been around!
Dilys later joined her dad just before 14.00.
13.56
14.00
14.32 LJ2 left
15.16 Dilys stayed on the preening perch. LJ2 joined her. He should’ve brought his ear defenders!!
She opened her beak and never stopped! Get me a fish dad!
15.17
15.17 LJ2 soon left
The cam followed him to the nest perch.
15.23
Dilys had been back on the nest fish calling but it wasn’t until her visit at 19.12 when LJ2 finally arrived with a fish. Her first and probably only one of the day.
She quickly took it.
19.14
19.20
19.34
19.38 She moves to the nest edge
20.15 Still there, contemplating what next.