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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
If we wanted to start a conspiracy theory, we could say that KL5 flew to the nest deliberately when Asha not there so he could keep his fish. Bwahaha.
Asha flew in exactly 1 min after he left. Maybe he saw her coming and so he took off.
He did fly, with his fish, right by the nest and Asha just seconds after she landed. But he didn't stop. Bwahaha.
She was doing her fish dance at 11:38 while he flew by. Gotta feel for Asha.
May 28, 2024 - Day complete
Fish: 8:23:43 (KL5)
Mating: 6:29 S All with KL5.
The (S)uccess or (F)ailure indication is purely my untrained observation.
1 S, 0 F
It's 17:36, KL5 has been eating his fish for 9 hours now.
Asha gave up on him and left the nest at 16:28, perhaps to get her own fish.
He flies off at 17:37:53. Ptz cam shows him flying by the right side of the nest at 17:37:56. He goes out of camera range. Don't know where to but must be nearby because Asha keeps yelling at him from the nest.
19:04 KL5 flies to dead tree behind tower at 19:04:42. Asha on the nest screaming at him.
KL5 finally delivers the remains of the fish to Asha at 22:03:35. She lunges for the fish. Easy handover. She flies off with it and at 22:04:22 lands on a tree behind the nest (see ptz). She flies off from that at 22:12:00 to the totem pole. At 22:50:40 she takes off like a shot in a downward dive from the totem pole. Goes out of sight.
22:13 to 22:16 a fox meanders down the hill behind the nest. See ptz.
May 29. 3:39 Asha arrives on the nest perch and starts calling for a fish.
28 May sketchy summary
Canuck said:May 29. 3:39 Asha arrives on the nest perch and starts calling for a fish.
Thank you, CANUCK, I hope you're having a well-deserved sleep by now
Asha posttered until Klive arrived for a failed mating on the perch:
As at now, Klive has left, Asha remains on the perch.
May 29, 2024 - Day complete
Fish: 20:41:00 (KL5)
Mating: 4:47 F, 10:49 F. All with KL5.
0 S, 2 F