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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
7:44 female allows Blue Kl5 to land on nest and takes partly eaten fish from him (pike?)… 2 minutes later she shooed him off and continues eating.
8:03 KL5 is back, attempts to mate and again is shooed off!
08:20 repeat of 8:03
Trying to find the last confirmed sighting of the male? KL5 seems very persistent. The female can’t incubate 24/7… if her mate doesn’t return today we might discover if KL5 is a keeper or kicker of eggs that are not his. I hope we don’t find out the answer to that and her mate gets back soon.
8:53 repeat of 8:03
According to chat the last sighting was early yesterday morning when he brought Asha a small brown trout.
Hmmm. I have known males disappear for up to 48 hours at this stage in the season. Don’t write him off yet would be my advice.
I presume that KL5 is a tardy osprey.
Tiger Signature
Are you responding to my query about his last night, TIGER? It's very strange to me that he's done this for... "several" seasons now.
EJFan said: I have known males disappear for up to 48 hours at this stage in the season.
Laddie at Lowes has been missing for 4(?) days! He tends to go missing each season but not for as long as that.
EJFan said:05:12 ?Intruder? Perches on the ‘raven’s stick’ and female flaps him away and starts food soliciting.
05:12 ?Intruder? Perches on the ‘raven’s stick’ and female flaps him away and starts food soliciting.
It could be yesterday's URM but too unclear, as captioned.
I'll post this now, to save it sitting here while I get more coffee and set about KL5's intrusions, just so you know I'm "active"