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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
A very uncomprehensive summary of Klive's on-cam day:
22 August 2024
All very quiet so far, with one short visit by Klive. Grey and overcast, and still windy.
The cam panned and searched several times, both near and far. Some lovely views, but no sign of any osprey.
Pine marten deterrent
10.15 Klive landed on the nest and pottered – nest cam
10.16 PTZ suddenly stopped panning and returned to the nest, to Klive. He had a bit of preening, while keeping an eye on all round him. Was he expecting a visitor! The cam still keeps glitching or faltering.
10.24 In a glitch he lay in the cup – has he nest cupped? Then back to moving sticks
10.29 Just to show 'e woz 'ere
10.32 After standing and watching for a while he flew off – nest cam towards bottom right
11.24 side view of the nest
12.21 No sign of him on the nest since he left.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
All very quiet so far apart from the appearance of the spider on nest cam. It was there at daybreak, and disappeared at 10.35 leaving signs of web, strands of which caught the light for a while.
22 August (sorry I'm so late):
Klive's morning visit, not seen for the rest of the day:
The frozen fly-off:
23 August
SheilaFE said:All very quiet so far apart from the appearance of the spider on nest cam. It was there at daybreak
Well that's weird! I did a tortured response to this, all about not being able to get an adequate snap and the type of critter it is etc etc, and it's disappeared with only the quoted text remaining. Maybe the system censored my nonsense
13:21 ~ PTZ found Klive with fish on Odin's perch. I expect he was seen earlier on nest cam, will check later.
In the meantime, nothing illuminating to see here:
Klive's day - sorta
Just for the sake of it:
Gosh, Klive was in early this morning - compared to recent habit. I've tagged a deer on the end. I'm not sure if the evident softness of the ground as the deer left our screen is due to depth of ground-cover or bogginess of soil ???
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From 09:30 there were lotsa Chaffies (and maybe others) on the nest but camperson came on duty a few minutes too late to catch them.
G'night folks! xxx
scylla said:From 09:30 there were lotsa Chaffies (and maybe others) on the nest but camperson came on duty a few minutes too late to catch them.
I know I said g'night but I got waylaid, and as I was checking the nestcam view of the Chaffie invasion I noticed a Great Tit among them, and lo and behold
A startling frame, just in case anyone misses the momentous event - and I know it's not clear, but you shoulda seen how pale and blurry the originals were:
BUT - a few seconds later I noticed something appear and disappear on the right side that could have been an insect leg, we'll have to wait and see if there's another one there.
EDIT -
Relented and did a little vid for YouTubers.
25 August
Klive left it until 20:25 to visit today !!! He had a slight wander on the nest but other than that he did nothing but stand there until flying off about 20 minutes later.
He looked good.
Yes, Scylla, Klive is looking very fit and ready for migration. I wonder whether that will be the last we see of him, surveying his domain and taking it all in.
Bank Holiday Monday 26 August
Pia reported on chat: KL5 still viewable on replay, 20:25 - 20:46 yesterday evening.
There is no sign of him so far today.
We had a beautiful golden morning
But we did have a sighting of a buzzard at 13.19. The cam had been on the nest for a while, and then suddenly found the raptor
It flew off within a minute,
14.07 and the cam stayed on the that view
14.20 cam back on the nest