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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
SheilaFE said:13.15 I have been hearing nibbles, or taps on the mike, but nothing is visible around the cam. It's been going on for a while, and continues.
I've put 13:13-13:18 into sound editor but, despite many adjustments, can find no trace of anything besides wind. Must you have had a "burst-thru" from another website?
06 August
Little snatches memorialising Klive's visits - Jay's intrusion included, I treated that sound but forgot all about "looking" for the crows. No-one seen for the rest of the day.
Dang, I would decided to go into typo mode when the site is in slomo.
07 August
Today's Klive - extremely uncomprehensive but showing him sitting down in the nestcup more than usual and perching on a "stump trunk" ??? that I've never seen an Osprey on before... nor no-one else! However, you all know about my powers of observation - the only reason I haven't maimed or killed anyone on the road is that I don't drive a car
This is the "stump-trunk" (no idea how tall it is):
That's super. Scylla!! Thank you. Lovely to see the Jay. Well, I have no idea what I heard!
There was a lovely light this morning, as the sun first appeared over the hills
and then rose enough to cast long shadows of the trees
09.20 Klive landed
It's windy
10.02 Klive took flight
10.14 Klive returned with a stumpy stick
by 10.30 he was sitting in the cup, keeping out of the wind.
10.51 braced and balancing against the wind
11.05 he flies off again
12.42 Klive returned, spent a lot of time just looking around
12.45 He is off again
13.04 and returned with a long thick stick, puts it down without care.
13.09 he nestorises and nest cups, then just sits for a minute or two.
13.15 he checks sticks on the rim, then back to the cup, where he stands and stares before returning to the rim.
13.19 it must be too windy, he returns to the cup to get comfy, out of the wind and watches across the tree tops to the right. He stayed there for the nest half an hour when he stands, checks around him. There appears to be rain in the air.
13.57 he moved a largish stick on the front of the nest, not the thick fresh looking one but one behind it. Then he stands, staring. It's still windy with large black skies and small breaks for the sn to shine thru. Time for a spot of preening.
14.01 Klive flew off
14.15 He returns with a large very awkward stick, battling into the wind as he landed. He finally puts it on the near rim; the wind catches it and blows it into the cup. He returned it to the rim and looed over the back of the nest.
14.23 More preening
14.36 stick blows into the cup, which he replaces back on the rim, taking time to rearrange. Keeping the cup clear!
14.41 Off again
15.53 the cloud level has descended, the distant mountains have disappeared.
17.21 I've been out and find the clouds are back to a high level with big skies of bubbly clouds
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
A surprise visitor at teatime - juvie-looking Blue179 - male? Nothing on UKOspreyInformation.
Oh wow, what a pretty young osprey. Male possibly, with a lot of white. Absolutely stunning! Thank you for spotting it, Scylla. Will it return in 2026. Could have been hatched nearby and is exploring. It seems a bit early for it to be on migration.
Cams appear to be down. I have a green screen on nest cam, and a whirlygig on PTZ, and nothing reported on either chat.
I'm afraid I don't have time just now to do a proper update, but the cam went at 09.30 and returned at 12.14 to an ENS.
12.50 Klive landed and he spent most the time in the cup, preening. It was still windy.
12.14 he flew off. Zoom goes in search, out to the tree line beyond the bog where they find an osprey, presumably Klive, on a dead tree.
13.17 he left the dead tree.
13.20 the cam searches beyond the bog, round to the rear trees on the left, then off to the right, then back to the nest, then out to the dead tree where Klive was earlier.
13.22 Klive took off again, when another osprey came into view too. The cam follows the chase until 13.27 when the disappeared.
As far as I can tell no one has been back to the nest area since then. Now 19.09
SheilaFE said: the cam went at 09.30 and returned at 12.14 to an ENS.
And I was totally engrossed in feeling too hot to "work" and forgot all about it. I am now going to record a scrap from rollback so's to post something for today on YouTube. (I have only just switched on.) Thank you very much indeed for your guidance, SHEILA
An osprey, presumably Klive, arrived at about 19.07. It landed on the dead tree (PTZ) beyond the nest. It had a fish and was in no hurry to eat it. I imagine, if it were Klive, he had been over near the PTZ or old nest, eating it before flying to the dead tree near the nest. It flew off after about fifteen minutes or so.
08 August
Klive - midday, intruder, no ID possible:
Evening, with fish not seen to be eaten: