Friday 4th May 2012

May 4, 2012 in Wildlife Village by Jan

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Good morning Villagers

Lady waited a long time yesterday for the first fish of the day. It was delivered at 17.15 but was a huge one. Laddie is doing such a brilliant job at egg sitting it looks like Lady trusts him and has her time away from the nest. It will be interesting to see what happens when the bobbleheads arrive. I feel he is going to be a lovely caring providing dad. I have noticed he is very good at landing on the nest away from Lady and the eggs each time he brings in a fish, not so good with branches though LOL

A nest with a view! No wonder Lady returns year after year.

 

Our Lovely Laddie

 

 Nestcap Thursday 3rd May 2012
 
Fish Deliveries  -  1
 
00.21 Lady up and gives her eggs a turn and settles back down again
00.29 Lady flat out sleeping now.
06.44 Lady on the nest, on early early egg brooding duties.
07.03 Lady calling softly.
07.14 LOOKS LIKE LADY SHOUTING – BREAKFAST IS LATE AGAIN!!
07.15 Lady turns the eggs
07.21 Laddie flies in with a branch, not what Lady wanted, she is off and he settles on the eggs.
09.12 Laddie has just given himself and the eggs a little turn, and is busily throwing sticks on his back
09.52 Lady peeping, but getting more insistent for her breakfast, I think. Ducks making a noise on the loch.
10.37 Lady still on the nest but looking a bit restless – I expect she is waiting for breakfast
11.30 Laddie arrives with nesting material. Lady off and he settles on the eggs and starts to barricade himself in.
11.46 Laddie up and moving sticks and grass around, now settles on the eggs oh he is up again, back to facing the same way as when he got up!!!
11.58 He is up again, he is real figity today.
12.32 Laddie on the nest, I see there has been no fish delivery this morning!
12.34 Lady flies in and Laddie off, another smooth changeover. Hope he has gone fishing now.
13.15 Big wing stretch for Lady and a turn of the eggs.
13.36 Isla stands and turns the eggs again,,, fiddles a lot,, then finally hunkers down again,, still looking for that itinerant partner of hers
13.46 Close up of ISLA panting in the heat,,,
13.48 Wonderful close up of our girl, thank you camera person at LotLs.
13.51 I don’t have a bloomin clue what happened there,,, it was so fast and the webcam was moving all over the place,,, DID Laddie bring in a fish ??WAS there a hand over ?? All I saw was a bird land, a lit of wing flapping and one bird flew off,, all in seconds,,, Looking at the webcam it looks as if it is LADDIE Nest and egg sitting,,,
13.52 Was that a fish, camera timed out on me.
13.54 Laddie now on duty, looking into the camera.
13 57 Head marking show this to be LADDIE turning the eggs folks,,,
14.06 Laddie on the eggs.
14.12 Checked footage Chrissy, NO FISH, he flew in and she flew straight off
14.41 Laddie still sitting quietly and soaking up the rare sunshine
14.50 Laddie still nodding off now and then, such hard work egg sitting!!
16.25 Oyster catchers flying over
17.15 Huge Fish Delivery, Lady takes it and flies off, Laddie gets onto the eggs
17.24 LADDIE NOW SITTING COMFORTABLY ON THE EGGS IN LOVELY SUNSHINE
18.10 Lady is back – changeover – does she looked stuffed
18.13 Lady not comfy and gets up to turns eggs again, settles back down
18.43 Lady doing a bit of nestoration
18.44 Lady back up and gives her eggs another little turn, a little wiggle and she’s settled again
18.46 And she’s back up again still not quite right and turns the eggs again
18.47 Change Over, Laddie arrives in with a Large thick branch and Lady’s off
18.48 Laddie settles down onto his eggs
19.01 Laddie back up to re-arrange his eggs and back down
19.28 Laddie up and turning the eggs, and back down again.
20.36 Laddie still on the nest. Think Lady has gone to finish off the fish from earlier.
20.39 Lady back and Laddie flies off. She gets into the nestcap and gently turns the eggs, then settles down on them
21.15 Lady still on the eggs and being quiet
21.21 Infra Red on
22.04 Lady sleeping peacefully
22.07 Lady still sleeping like a baby
22.34 Lady still sound
22.56 Lady’s having a good sleep tonight, must have been the good weather and sun today
23.43 Lady sleeping soundly
23 50 A flea has bothered our girl under her left wing,,,quick scratch and fiddle,, and Ooooo the relief,,,, Isla then stands stretches,, a few wing flaps to get the kinks out has look about in the night air,, a fiddle or two with breast feathers,, well a Lady still has to look her best,,even in the dark,,, then walks back over to the eggcup and hunkers down,,
Laddie delivers a Huge Fish at 17.15 yesterday
Laddie delivers a club to ward of intruders!!
 
 All Screen Shots and Video’s © SWT http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/

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The Dyfi Osprey Project and the Scottish wildlife Trust  have kindly given their permission for us to post still and video images from their webcams. To visit their sites please click on the relevant link.    Loch of the Lowes.  Dyfi Osprey Project.


 


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