Eagle Cam

[classwife]

Ok then...on the stream of the eagles...scrolldown to the information....the section of who operates and maintains the camera....find the highlighted words about slide show.....should get you there.

[Scylla]

Got it thanks! Yup, it's BIG

scylla

[bluecow1980]

looking at the ospreys... I think EJ has laid her first egg!

[bluecow1980]

YAY just seen the new egg, baby ospreys are on the way!

[Scylla]

The osprey pair has one egg

I switched over to them just in time to see one parent join the other on the nest. The sitting bird ignored him/her until s/he picked up a big stick, then they swapped over - but...

Oh, this will be too boring for everyone to read, but I was fascinated

scylla

[bluecow1980]

lol scylla, I am too...

Dont much care if I bore everyone either....

[Scylla]

Don't like the stick dangling out of the eagle's eye It's been there ages

That's me being pessimistic - it may actually be hanging from the corner of its beak.

scylla

[Scylla]

Oh dear, one of the ospreys has been trying to demolish the RSPB equipment, by the sound of it (it's just out of camera shot) and it sounds as though they've set off an electrical fire - there's sizzling going on Something ain't right, that's for sure

EDIT - Or... there could be an insect caught in a mike ???

One egg, with both birds standing there letting the elements have their wicked way with it - am sure they know what they're doing Ah, it's being sat on now

As for the eagles, the 3 chicks are sitting in an orderly row being fed, sweet as anything.

The sitting bird was kept awake all night by a nearby bird claiming its territory, I couldn't believe how long it went on - hours and hours

scylla

[classwife]

So...now I am watching the eagles, the perrigrins, and the osprey !!!

What laundry ??????

[Scylla]

The eagles have been dead quiet all night. The ospreys are thinking about doing a swap but can't make up their minds, so the single egg (that's two days now) is nekkid and chilled >

Oh, and the sitting peregrine is asleep, as it always is when I peek

scylla

[bluecow1980]

lol scylla..

I wouldnt worry about EJ and Odin, this is Ej's 10th year breeding so I reckon she knows what she is doing... unlike some of her mates.

Below is a shameless copy and paste from here: www.rspb.org.uk/community/groups/lochgartenospreys/forum/p/19621/269560.aspx

Its a sort of this is your life for EJ the osprey.

White EJ

(Photo)

EJ, the resident female at Loch Garten since 2003. Female ospreys have a brown 'bib' which males don't. EJ's forehead also has more brown than those of male birds.

1997 EJ hatched at a nest near Bridge of Cally in north-east Perthshire, where she was ringed by wildlife artist Keith Brockie. Her “colour” ring – white with EJ in black - is on her right leg, the metal BTO ring on her left. Nothing is known of EJ’s life for the next 3 years.

2001 EJ was identified nesting in Rothiemurchus Forest near Aviemore, with an older male osprey wearing an orange VS ring (OVS for short). That year the nest failed, probably due to pine martens predating the eggs.

2002 EJ and OVS nested again in Rothiemurchus Forest, this time raising one chick.

2003 EJ lost her nest to a more aggressive female, and arrived in mid-June at Loch Garten, where she paired with male osprey Henry (ring Ochre HV), who had taken over the nest that spring. It was too late for her to lay eggs, but they stayed together at the nest site pair-bonding.

2004 EJ returned to Loch Garten on 26th March, and was joined by her old mate OVS, until Henry arrived on 3rd April and evicted him. EJ and Henry raised three chicks, which were given yellow leg rings with numbers 27, 28, 29 – Yellow 28 was a male whilst the other two were deemed to be female.

2005 EJ and OVS again mated at the Loch Garten nest, before OVS disappeared. A four year old male, Red 8T, tried to take over the nest but proved to be inadequate at providing food for our female. She laid several eggs before Henry arrived on 25th April, he was covered in oil and almost skeletal. He succeeded in chasing off Red 8T and then kicked the eggs out of the nest, a further egg was laid but that was also ejected by Henry. However, EJ and Henry stayed at Loch Garten as a pair till the end of the season.

2006 Once again, EJ and OVS mated at Loch Garten before Henry arrived. On 10th April he returned, chased off OVS and re-established the bond with EJ. Three eggs were laid, three chicks fledged – they were all considered to be female and were given yellow leg rings 8U, 8V and 8W.

2007 History repeated itself once more as EJ returned to Loch Garten on 4th April and paired up with OVS. EJ had laid 2 eggs before Henry arrived on 22nd April and kicked the eggs out of the nest. On 24th April EJ laid two eggs in two hours, Henry kicked these out of the nest too. This year was remarkable as our couple went on to produce a second clutch, eggs being laid on 11, 14 and 16 May. However all three eggs failed; two eggs hatched but the chicks died within 24 hours, the third egg seems to have failed mid-hatching.

2008 Henry did not return this year, and EJ and OVS were the resident pair at Loch Garten. They raised two chicks, female Nethy and male Deshar. A third chick died in late June.

2009 Neither Henry nor OVS returned to Loch Garten. EJ arrived on 25th March and took a new mate, an unringed male osprey who arrived on 3rd April and was named Odin. They raised three female chicks; Rothes, Mallachie, and Garten.

2010 EJ returned on 26th March and was joined by Odin on 3rd April. They raised three healthy chicks, who were not sexed, ringed or satellite tagged due to bad weather throughout the week scheduled for this operation. All had left Loch Garten on migration by 25th August.

[Scylla]

What a soap opera?! What a shame about the weather last year preventing ringing

Thanks for that, Blue

Seen them "at it" overnight, not very romantic. Only one egg still.

scylla

[classwife]

blue...wow !! What a read !! Great ! Thank you !

[Scylla]

How frustrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just peeked at the ospreys to see one settling down on what might have been TWO eggs... but can't be sure ???

No! they just swapped and there's still only ONE Musta been white feathers I saw before.

scylla

[bluecow1980]

argh scylla.....

Ive been watching them all morning, and it was only one egg. I've just spent the last hour getting the housework done and your telling me she has laid again! So unfair, I miss the action again!