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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
Update on FB from RSPB Loch Garten Abernethy, this morning
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
I'm going to have to delete this if I've posted it already - signed, Confused of SW London.
02 May 2024
Afternoon destruction of eggs by KL5-Klive (just up to the point where we can see the job is done) and some aerial activity:
Asha did her damnedest but it wasn't damned enough:
She slept in the nestcup:
03 May 2024
Nothing done apart from this morning's fish from Brodie already posted and a snap of Asha:
You can see Asha on her perch on the PTZ cam in the far left corner of the screen. She's still there eating at 21:00.
Am as confused as you are Scylla but many thanks for soldiering on
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
I too am. Confused. The post from the LG FB said that Brodie was nowhere to be seen whilst Asha was defending .... so who was the third Osprey if one was KL5?
Freebird66 said: who was the third Osprey
There's been a comparatively unaggressive unringed male around for a couple of days at least - I snapped him on the 1st:
Thank you for "It's Klive with a blue trout", SHEILA - yer tiz.
I was saying over on LotL about males being unable, not necessarily unwilling, to let go of a fish - not sure about this example:
A fine fish!
When Asha returned she spent some time tolerating him.
EDIT - a quickie to show she's on the nest again tonight:
Saturday 03:52 osprey flies to ‘ravens perch’. Silhouette only
Bird onto nest. Skydiving heard and second osprey to nest - 04:02
Sky dancing not diving!