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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
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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
She was last seen on cam July 6th
scylla said:there appeared to be a "wound" under his foot,
I can see some sort of pink swelling but don't know if it's normal ... here's a pic of the underside of an Osprey foot courtesy of Dyfi Osprey Project
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
I see that Holly has already responded, Cirrus. This is in the time line a few days ago when I posted a resume of her final day, 6 July.
04.43 Asha flew to the nest perch, and dropped to the nest at
05.16 when Klive arrived.
05.42 Klive takes flight, Asha calls for fish
07.04 Asha continues to call
07.30 Klive returns without a fish, Asha looks for it!
08.13 Asha flies to totem pole and at some point returned to the nest
08.24 Asha flew from the nest to Odin's perch
09.11 Asha flew to the nest at Klive returned, fishless again
10.18 Klive comes and goes with nesting material. Asha watched from the nest perch
10.23 Asha flies off to the left out of sight
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Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
16.14 Who is this on the dead tree. Just found by the PTZ
Unringed. markings on chest, probably female. It's Asha, last seen on 6 July. At least I am pretty certain it's her. But she's not being very co-operative. She's very carefully cleaning her feathers
How long she had been on the dead tree I don't know. Cam was fixed on the nest, until it spotted her at 16.14
16.32 having looked carefully around her, she flew off.
16.33 She landed on the nest cam, again with her back to us on PTZ, and stayed for less than a minute,
and flew off again.
Cam moved out a bit, and stayed put on the nest.