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Thread for April 2024
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Please read Korky's comprehensive March 2024 intro
Asha & Brodie
The partnership has matured this season, with Asha continuing her good female role (and she loves nest-building) and Brodie being more reliable, both fishing and incubating.
The pair have fought their way thru all kinds of nasty weather - snow, wind and rain - and intruders, including the dreaded KL5 Klive, have been a nuisance but not dangerous...
so far.
21 April @ 10:47
24 April @ 14:06
27 April @ 13:27
IMAGICAT
I've been in London today, but catching up with FB on the way home I found a photo or two by Val Gall, who many of you will remember if an excellent photographer, and has her own fish pond, and a couple of nests!! One of the males came in with a very large blue fish either yesterday or the day before. I asked whether it was from her pond or further afield. She said it was her pond. Next question, was the large blue fish we saw Brodie bring in a Blue Trout too. She said ' yes' 'definitely'!! So from an experts opinion, we have a first at LG! A Blue Trout!!
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
18,49 Asha has been calling for ten or more minutes, at one time standing up and backing up as tho a fish was in-coming. But so far it has failed to arrive. Is the intruder in the vicinity. She's not a happy bunny/
18:49 female furiously food soliciting. She must be able to see the male.
There's an osprey on top of the cam on zoom! I am unsure whether it is Brodie!! It must be Brodie. Asha would have driven it away, if it wasn't him. He preening!
Sadly I've got to go, but I suspect Brodie has been dealing with Klive, and he is preening to tidy the feathers after any intervention! At least I hope he is not maintaining his fish duties!
She had a fish tail early a.m. which took her 9 minutes to eat… but had to deal with intrusions ad nauseam today!
Ok, here we go! All with KL5
15:58:05 to 15:58:18 FIRST mating attempt
16:00:07 KL5 on PTZ cam
16:00:52 to 16:01:06 SECOND mating attempt
16:15:10 to 16:15:20 THIRD mating attempt
17:10 skydancing
17:19:40 to 17:19:54 FOURTH mating attempt
17:22;55 to 17:23:03 Lands on nest
17:35:23 to 17:35:32 FIFTH mating attempt
He's a chancer alright!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Who was on the campost for 50 minutes from 18:30? I can't see a ring, and Asha ended up flapping him away - as if she was telling Brodie to get going chasing... ???
I couldn't see any ring, but there were few opportunities. I initially thought it was an intruder, - we didn't get a good facial view while I was looking, and I didn't go back on zoom to see his arrival. But I decided it was Brodie, particularly as Asha showed no aggression, just fish soliciting, loudly. No 'snorting'! Just by her reaction I decided it was Brodie, but on Chat Valerie said it wasn't. So form your own opinion, unless the VC posts something more conclusive.