Continued from March 2024
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It was a very welcomed surprise to see NC0 arrive back from her wintering grounds on the 8th March, her earliest return to date! NC0 kept herself occupied while alone - catching some impressive-sized fish to eat as well as preparing the nest in readiness for future eggs. To note, her severely split blue darvic ring (as seen last season) is missing and she now only wears a BTO ring on her right leg.
It was a nail-biting time for us waiting to see if dear Laddie would make an appearance too and, little did we know, that it would be a further 19 days before he made his ‘grand entrance’ on the 27th, being ‘escorted’ to the nest by a flock of very vocal gulls!
Having settled into their usual routines on the nest and around the reserve, we now look forward to watching this season’s events unfold.
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Nest Updates
Arrival dates: NC0(16) - 8.3.24 (17:52) Laddie (LM12) - 27.3.24 (16:38)
Eggs laid: Egg #1 - 17.4.24 (10:48) Egg #2 - 20.4.24 (10:53) Egg #3 - 23.4.24 (20:47)
Link to blogs and updates during March
April Blogs and Updates (published dates)
17.4.24: SWT/LotL blog >>> First osprey egg of the season at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve
17.4.24: SWT video >>> NC0 Laying First Egg of the Season
20.4.24: SWT/LotL blog >>> Second osprey egg of the season at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve
20.4.24: SWT video >>> NC0 Lays Second Egg of the Season
24.4.24: SWT/LotL blog >>> Third osprey egg of the season at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve
24.4.24: SWT video >>> Female Osprey NC0 Lays Third Egg of the Season
30.4.24: LotL Fb >>> Regarding Laddie's absence
15:42 Still awaiting a new YT URL
17:11 Cam is still not back online - I wonder if there's a major outage in the area?
17:12 Back online now!
New YT URL
NC0 continuing to incubate
©SWT/LotL
17:17 NC0 left the nest for a comfort break
A cropped pic of the eggs - #1 left, #3 top, #2 bottom
She was back within 30 seconds!
The eggs were rolled before she settled back down again
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The last fish Laddie delivered before going AWOL:
IMAGICAT
NC0 went for a second fly about at 17:21
Arriving back to the perch just under a minute later
Back to her precious eggs
scylla said:The last fish Laddie delivered before going AWOL
Thank you for the vid, Scylla
Using an online calculator, at 17:45 today it had been 74 hours and 20 minutes since that fish was delivered.
Last season, after Laddie had an injury to his flank and was unable to fish (the first chick had just hatched), the meal he brought to the nest for NC0 was 87 hours after she had last eaten.
This was the Osprey Diary at the Loch of the Lowes – Week 9 overview of that occasion
18:12 NC0 has just flown off again
Then landed 42 seconds after leaving
18:16 She was off again!
Just under 30 seconds later, she was back
18:25 I don't know what she's doing, but she left again!
Away for just under a minute
Just in my thoughts, could she be checking out the Loch to see if there's an 'easy' fish to catch?