I've been posting these in the off-season Loch Garten thread but it's time to stop, so here they are until the ospreys prevent me from sparing time & resources for the beautiful couple and their beautiful (mostly ;) ) co-habitants.
Last season 2 youngsters safely fledged (but only just, it was hairy for a while, with one on the ground defending vs a persistent fox).
It was a relief to see the 2 adults return after the worst of the fires had passed.
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Some birdie porn brought forward to save you risking the dark web ;)
The Rainbow Lorikeets are delightful and often invade in numbers, but the cams need to be manned to get decent close-ups of them.
The resident pair (I can't quickly find a nice colour pic of the two):
11/12 March:
One visited mid-afternoon, had a brief spell on the nest, left:
Back in the evening:
Was sleeping peacefully on a far-out bough when (probably) a Boobook Owl made mischief for about 40 minutes, on 'n off - hence she(?) stayed on where you see her for the rest of the night, until she left at about 06:40:
The frequent visitor top-right is a Noisy Miner, it wasn't one of those who caused so much disruption while the youngsters were on the nest, they were a Magpie (main culprit) and a Currawong.
IMAGICAT
They both spent the night of 18/19 in the tree, then in the morning were more seriously nestorising until 10:20.
One of the pair stayed in the tree until early lunchtime - with another local registering defiance but I can't tell who it was:
The eagles had an unwelcome visitor but soon shooed it off. The cam tried to zoom on it but it went out of focus.
Then they appeared to be peering at something down below - by the time the cam took a look it was far too late:
This was their sleeping arrangement for the night:
Kind regards, Ann
Unknown said:Those ducks on the previous page are absolutely beautiful.
They were a wonderful surprise. It's partly the discovery of a few of Australia's other birds that's tying me to this nest :)
Nestorising has gone on all morning, one mainly supervising ;)
One was there until 14:34:
One eagle visited for only 10 minutes in the evening:
I don't know who this animal was in the night - the eagle stayed near the nest for the rest of the night.
Chaotic morning of the 21st!
The feisty Pacific Black Duck (do I remember the name right?), Lorikeets heard (I tried to show you on the Twitch cam but that's gone flaky again), Magpie/Currawong? and some black birds I haven't got time to look up... and some smoke suddenly rising in the distance
Evening of the 21st:
I'm not following regularly but pop in now and then to see who's there - and the couple has been there often lately:
Popped in just now on the off-chance and the cam was down - but these are from rollback: