Well the great day that we anticipated was yesterday, Wednesday 21st March when at 5.07pm EJ touched down on the Loch Garten nest to great joy all round. I was not around at the time but I actually received the news via New York.
The event was captured rather well by 444ACE444
Then tonight we had the rather alarming sight of a pine marten on the nest.
Let us hope this is not a serious problem. However EJ has had her eggs taken by pine martens before in 2001.
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Happy new day Tiger - the first "full" day of the season. I'm so happy to have looked in earlier!
Thanks Tiger. Looking forward to the new season with anticipation.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Tiger, you have reassumed your role with aplomb and your usual consideration for others. Thank you so much x
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Evening all: Hurray for EJ.
Is it me or is the image a lot smaller than in previous years? Harelady on Weekly Chat page gave the following link - www.carnyx.tv/.../Scotland.aspx - which has a somewhat better image of the nest than that on the RSPB page. You can scale up the Carnyx pix in that little white square bottom at the far right under the image.
Does anyone know if there's anything in between these smaller images and the full-screen, fuzzier options?
Just FYI, the LOTL cam is live too (and much better quality than the LG cam) scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/.../loch-of-lowes
How wonderful to have EJ back :)))))) Missed her arrival yesterday (was on late shift) and now staring the cam with my morning java hoping to see her with my own eyes. I do hope that pine marten won't make a habit visiting the nest...
Here's to a succeful season!
my photos in flickr
Good morning all and thank you Tiger for starting the new day. It feels like we've never been away.
Thanks Annette for that link. I have saved it to my favourites.
A Pine Martin on the nest is a bit of a worry. Lets hope that it doesn't come back. We don't want history to repeat itself.
Loch Garten stats. and All the important links for LG.
Day cam is on
Hey Moffer, you beat me by a minute! Color at LG!
The still cam is still B&W and is not refreshing itself for some reason