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.
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!
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: