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
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Also - a reminder to sign the Birds of Prey Pledge http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/birdsofprey/
Sorry, all.... but I did say Shagrat and Gorbag AT THIS STAGE. I had started off even worse, with Humpty and Dumpty! I then thought about Hali and Albi (from Haliaeetus albicilla), or perhaps Havorn. Then, JanKTFA, I had wondered about Tolkien's Aragorn and Arwen, but looking at the photos, all I could imagine was the raucous squabbling of Shagrat and Gorbag! I enjoyed it in the book. And anyway, much as I loved the LOTR films, for me it detracted from certain characters that were better left to the imagination. Instead, how about Tolkien's eagle, Gwaihir and brother Landroval ('Wind-lord' and 'Wide-wing).' Or, if the second name sounds too much like a jeep, the third LOTR eagle was Meneldor ('Sky-king'). But if you want The Silmarillion's Lord of the Eagles himself, it was Thorondor.... I bet you all wish I hadn't got me going on onomastics!!! Well, perhaps it will give Dave something to keep his mind off any thought of personal discomfort? Kindest regards - and much love to him from his BEAUTIFUL eagles, whatever their names.