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.
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From YT rollback - 2 eggs :)
From YT rollback - still 2 eggs, which I believe is the usual for these WB Sea Eagles:
Playing for sympathy, I've been struggling with this since yesterday, wot with having to record some from rollback, giving up on trying to find a steady view of the eaglet due to the cam not being on the same tree as the nest, so we've got competing sways
(I don't intend to keep following this nest, especially thru the bonking stage.)
First hatch - SE-25 - early yesterday morning and it took some time for the hatchling to dry out.
A disturbance last evening - probably a Boobook Owl ???
These eagles aren't going to win any singing competitions, are they?!
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SE-26 is here - officially hatched @ 06:40 on 30th Oz time.
It's now the early hours of the following morning, I'll do a catchup - if I can bear it!
Just a few views from the day - I haven't tried to do a feeding scene, you know how frustrating they can be But SE-25 has mastered the art already.
Difficult to get a good view of SE-26, s/he's been getting used to being alive ;)
SE-25 dearly loves his little sibling (showing how misinformation is easily spread )
The built-in timeline has stopped appearing on the downloaded stream :(
EDIT - No it hasn't - I'd left the editor on "crop" from an LOTL vid.
I've been recording but never looking at it for fear of what I'll see. I just took a chance.
The younger seems to be staying down at feeding time until the elder is sated - and it's working, see that 26's crop isn't empty, but how about 25's?!
Here's today's wakeup, a shortie:
Update.
There's a huge difference in maturity and size between the siblings, SE-25 has obviously dominated but SE-26 is holding on. I can't see it being nearly as "fit" as the second eaglet was last season! It will be interesting to see how they both turn out.