Just a quick update tonight but what an update!!
As mentioned earlier, our chicks at Loch Frisa were ringed last Wednesday. One of the guys working for the Forestry Commission (Scotland) who was helping took some photos of the chicks. It is just so exciting to be able to see them so close rather than staring at them through a telescope and binoculars. They will be 8 weeks old tomorrow and are ever edging closer to fledging. They fledge at about 12 weeks and that's when their adventures will reallly start, venturing out into the big wide world - but more of that when it happens and of course, we will keep you posted.
Loch Frisa Chicks 2009
Photo Courtesy Alasdair Cameron Forestry Commission (Scotland)
Loch Frisa chicks 2009
Photo courtesy Alasdair Cameron Forestry Commission (Scotland)
If you are following the Estonian webcam, you will see that their chicks were ringed too, a couple of days before ours. live sea eagle webcam
Dont forget you can join the RSPB and support our work with the eagles - just click the 'Join now' button
Also - a reminder to sign the Birds of Prey Pledge http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/birdsofprey/
Onomastics is also known as onomatology (sorry, I did ancient Greek and Latin for very many years and perhaps I ate the volumes of Oxford dictionaries a friend gave me many years ago for my 21st? Yes, even I thought it was a strange 21st present!). Anyway, I can't help but love words, birds and much, much else and you may well feel sympathy for my poor, long-suffering family who have rather a lot to put up. If you don't have Tolkien's books, then look Gwaihir etc up on Wikipedia and all the Elven eagle names will be there. Not Hali and Albi, of course - just be grateful I didn't suggest Cilla!!! I quite like Humpty and Dumpty for these 'nestlings' on the photos, but how would that suit those beautiful, magnificent and upwardly soaring beings that will soon grace us all by uplifting our concept of life? [Hope I haven't been making Dave squirm... Take care, huh? You are much needed and you will soon bounce back where you are needed]