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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
EDIT
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Sadly, the month of May heralded irresistible aggression from BlueKL5 "Klive", who had ruined the end of last season for the 2 juvies.
Within the first 2 days Klive had driven Brodie from the area (tho Brodie did return a couple of times to dive-bomb Klive, to no effect) and destroyed the eggs. He commenced to woo Asha clumsily, selfishly and inappropriately, as can be seen from the following pages.
IMAGICAT
5:37 male to nest with partly eaten fish.
Approx 10 - 15 cm brown trout.
5:46 female back to nest.
5:47 both on nest. Male alarm calling and then flies to intruder leaving female on nest.
Blue ringed intruder lands in females back and attempts to mate! 15:59
Many thanks for informative intro to May thread Scylla and to EJFan for updates
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
16:15 tries to mate for a third time!
17:19 blue ring back AGAIN attempting to mate!
17:35 A little tired of writing YET AGAIN!
17:37 Ditto