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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Thanks, Scylla, You're all heart!
Edit: And I expect that there are many more followers of your and other's posts who never post themselves!
Kind regards, Ann
16 October
I've only noticed going thru today's recording of the main nestcam, which I hadn't done before, that SE-26 seems to have an injured foot. Delving into the hidden portion of EagleCAM's Facebook post on 30 September, I found this:
Both parents stayed very close by all night and at one stage one of them came to the nest to protect, but threat not seen:
Both left by 06:00.
Wings not nearly ready yet:
I was thinking... regarding the EagleCam team's Facebook post... I can't see that this eaglet stands a good chance of recovery, it's defending vs the Magpies many times a day and can't possibly rest that foot - which it seems to hold in a claw shape a lot. So I would hope they are making arrangements to rescue SE-26.
The cam swooped from one place to another and made this pretty picture:
17 October
SE-26 is using her right foot but not effectively, from what yesterday's teatime looked like:
18 October
Parents stayed very nearby overnight, made a racket in the morning - I couldn't see if it was caused by an intrusion or was just morning greetings. SE-26 is still struggling to walk normally.
19 October morning:
Afternoon:
A minute or two later
Can't do a fancy frame because of restrictions on the original.
SE-26 was lively in the early evening but her best leap was blurred:
Parents @ 20:00 on the 21st: