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Thread for April 2024
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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
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. Is it Asha, last seen on 6 July. At least I am think it's her if only by her mannerisms and not being wary of her surroundings. She showed some petticoat spots and of course the high freckled front. 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.
SheilaFE said:It's Asha, last seen on 6 July. At least I am pretty certain it's her
I'm pretty certain too What a coincidence, with CIRRUS just having asked about her. Where's she beeeen?!
Our dear friend Sandra has been absent thru illness so I've been tryng to cover some LotL, far more time-consuming than it should be. Clywedog is next, it's almost starving to death thru neglect.
While I was looking to see if Asha showed up on the nest cam when approaching or leaving the cam perch, I noticed the breeze blowing around something like pine cones on the nest, which had to be investigated - it turned out to be a birdie, maybe our Mistle Thrush, looking somewhat dishevelled - good luck if you try to get a clear view of it, it's so camouflaged!
Asha - as you remarked, Sheila - she wasn't co-operative. I found the clatter whan she landed on the cam perch but had nothing to "attach" it to because the PTZ didn't show her landing, dang!
No-one else seen by close of play.
It seems I was wrong about that being Asha. Both Chat and elsewhere have said it wasn't her. On reflection, I agree!
Asha, in May:
Which is definitely not the same as the beautiful female (below) we saw y'day. See Scylla's still to her vid above, and these snips.
Apologies, I ought to have had more due diligence before getting so excited.
So 6 July still remains as her final sighting.
I have to admit, I did not think it was her. I was looking for the 3 dot markings above the eyes, not easy to see but was sure it wasn't her. Aw, a shame if that is her away already
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I've corrected my title but am still not convinced either way :-/
I can't do the cams yet, need to pack up.
Catlady I bumped the Tech Test thread but couldn't thank you on it cos it wouldn't post with a quote and an "at" alert.
EDIT at 06:44
Downloader crashed last night, behind my back - reset it before packing up, just found it had crashed again as soon as I took my blooming eyes off it.
So I'm busy!
26 July ~ Found an overlooked clip while tidying up:
Evening - Klive pooped on nest - it might have gone over the side but there was a sudden gust that blew it back - fortunately it was a small poop and didn't seem to land on him:
A mini-wasp (I expect some will know what it is) visited the lens:
27 July
I am not being alarmist over this, just putting it on the record - the missing primary could hae been gone for days 'n weeks and I've only just noticed !!!
(The Scottish "hae" is not me speaking local, it's a typical typo.)
"Klive with missing primary and damaged breast feathers"... and a lovely skyshot at the end
No-one seen (by me) for the rest of the day.