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.
03 November - terrific progress today !!!
I'm pleased to see SE26 seems to be doing well, and coping with that less than perfect right foot. But I wonder how well she/he will do catching fish?
Unknown said:She seemed to be putting a bit of weight on her right foot
I'm imagining it's not looking quite so panful. Here's hoping!
03 November afternoon and evening. A good fish for tea and a visit from Boobook owl around 23:00, it only disturbed Lady tho. There was also a visitor among the sticks under the nest, seen on the Twitch cam - that cam was very, very flaky but even if it hadn't been the visitor would have been too shadowy to ID - except it had a tail. Nobody noticed it.
Looks like SE-26 has really gone and done it this time - s/he flew off after breakfast this morning and has not been seen since... allowing for short-sightedness on my part ;)
05 November
There was such a racket coming from the nest that I had to do a video, but it turned out to be a dull drag of the parents getting ready for the day - any intruder was not seen. So you might like to skip this, even tho it might be my swansong for the season. I didn't find SE-26 after s/he flew off yesterday but the SeaEagle team saw a couple of flybys, so I think I'll leave it to them.
Thanks for all of your photos and videos and reporting over the season, Scylla. If you decide, finally, to leave this nest indefinitely or until next season, I hope you will post here one more time to let us know--thanks!
Unknown said: If you decide, finally, to leave this nest indefinitely or until next season, I hope you will post here one more time to let us know--thanks!
I haven't got any sightings since ?? GardenBirder, and I've checked their Facebook page and see no new reports there either - so I've stopped the downloads forthwith. I hope I'll remember to keep checking FB and report here.
Thank you for following {{{GB}}}.
Yesterday early morning UK time, the SeaEagle team shared a picture by ©Chris R Bruce (linked to his Facebook page, with lovely pics of Oz birds and Scottish scenes too!).
SE-26, it doesn't say exactly when it was taken: