Weeks 8, 9, and 10 - Hollow wings!!

At the time of writing, poor old Frisa and Skye are sat on their perching tree, soaking up the sun and trying to catch their breath after tireless trips too and from the nest bringing more and more food for our ravenous chicks! It's just non stop for them at the minute, as the chicks - (who are looking more and more like eagles every day now, and have turned from little white bundles of fluff to big brown bundles of fluff as their feathers come through!!!) - just want to eat, eat more, have a snack then have dinner, tea and supper all in the space of an hour!!! As is true of most youngsters, they certainly have hollow wings!!!! And the amount that they have grown in the last couple of weeks has been astonishing!!

Sea eagles are fantastic parents, and do as much as they possibly can to keep their young fit, healthy and content in the nest, and Sye and Frisa really are running themselves ragged to cope with their babies demands! Fulmars, rabbits and other bits and peices have been brought in, and our visitors are amazed at the sheer range of food our eagles eat..... fish, seabirds, ducks, geese, you name it, our eagles will eat it!! (in the past there have been records of sea eagles who have brought in the odd feral cat to the nest!!! You can just imagine Tiddles looking at the eagle thinking "Yummy! That looks tasty!!!"....... and the eagle staring straight back and thinking exactly the same!!!)

So all is still well up on Loch Frisa, and with more birds being seen up at the hide, our species list has now grown to a fantastic 69, with Osprey, Whinchat and Whitethroat the latest summery additions, the Sand Martins still excavating, Siskins on the feeders, and of course the stars of our show the eagles on top form, it looks and feels like it's going to be a great summer!!