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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
I haven't got time atm to delve or catch up properly, other than to cry, where's Brodie (and where's Laddie, come to that). Are osprey making such a come-back that it is becoming a problem?
According to notes I made briefly y'day,
05:52 Chat Brodie chases off intruder. Looks like it might have followed him bringing fish
Is that the same as your vid, SCYLLA? I can't see any reference of him again. Just Klive and the unringed male. And here was I hoping for a smooth season for once! BBL
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
SheilaFE said:According to notes I made briefly y'day, 05:52 Chat Brodie chases off intruder. Looks like it might have followed him bringing fish Is that the same as your vid, SCYLLA?
Is that the same as your vid, SCYLLA?
I slomo'd Brodie flying off @ 05:46 and intruder flying after him - given the break-up on that cam with fast action, one could have missed that there were 2 birds - youtu.be/ziRSb_ReIQ0
Brodie just flew in with fish but KL5 chased him off
billy said:Brodie just flew in with fish but KL5 chased him off
Wow - thanks hugely, BILLY !!! OMG one has one's hands full now !!!
All strength to you (((Brodie)))
The sound's been out of sync on the nestcam since yesterday, it's most off-putting
Sound is back on track :)))
I'm up to 10:30, it's ridiculous, I don't remember such a persistent, frequent intruder - but should probably be refreshing my memory to dearest EJ's bad times ???
BTW, I remember thinking, when we first met Brodie, that he was quite big for a male and that made it even more difficult to tell the difference between him and Asha (Mistle, back then). I do hope that's right, but Klive looks a pretty hefty male now
Hang on...
... I've just checked Chat and there's no good news since Brodie brought a fish only to be chased away by KL5. Asha has been panicked off the nest a few times, cause unknown.
Meal break.
May 2 Summary (Part 1)
OMG, I can't keep up with what is going on. There are multiple ospreys in play.
It's chaos
Huge battle going on that's fascinating to watch but don't give much hope to this nest being successful especially looking at what happened at the end of last year. I think KL5 may take over nest