DAILY UPDATE (LG nest) Sunday 17 June 2012

Welll #2 at is best has just pooped on the camera lens - lovely!!!

One of the chicks just pooed on the camera... at least we cant see them now...

:-)

EJ calling.

At the end of the day, this is how nature intended it to be, whether we like it or not.

krisztinabelle said:

Lmac. I agree. I think the blogs showed what they think, but did not really communicate with us about our concerns in a meaningful way. I wonder if and how much they read from our forum? Honestly, I have never seen such an attack before. Awful. I wonder what the next blog would say??????????

Hi there, I know it was horrendous to watch but I did wonder whether #1 knew #3 was not going to survive and "put it out of its misery" so to speak.   I am really sorry but I don't mean to offend anybody by this thought but up until today has protected  #3.   Unfortunately nature is cruel, we watch in our own garderns every day with crows attacking other little birds and we learn to cope, and we will go on to think what beautiful Ospreys the two surviving chicks turn into.   I watched three chicks die/being killed by crows on the BC Hydro nest in Canada last year - it does not get better by seeing it before although

Sorry to hear sad news for all at LG. I do not think this could be helped & certainly nobodys fault.

2 great chicks surviving which is great news.

Love to all

Val

p/s 2 chicks hatched here at osprey hq- now 10 & 8 days old & doing well.

Valmc that is great news, I have to confess to being so engrossed here that I have not be reading at wildlife village so have missed your updates there

Hi Valmc - not 'seen' you around as much this year. Great to hear that your nest is doing well, especially after the early problems with (human) intruders.

When food is scarce the littlest won't get enough and can die. I understand the center  can't provide  fish carry out for every nest that doesn't have enough .

However, #2's  violence toward #3 was  happening when food was plentiful. It got worse when food was scarce. But the unprovoked attacks each time #3 raised his head  was  numbing . Maybe the center should watch the last fatal attack. All #3 did was raise it's head from a lying position .