Wildlife Blog 18th May 2011
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Events from the nest: This morning kicked off with a headless fish delivery from 7Y at 4.51. Our resident female then took the fish and enjoyed a long break from …
Wildlife Blog 17th May 2011
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Events from the nest: With the first egg hopefully due to hatch this weekend things are looking very positive, with the resident female observed listening to the eggs at 00.47 …
Wildlife Blog 16th May 2011
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Good afternoon all, Events from the nest today: Today has been a largely quiet day on the nest with our female osprey continuing with the job of incubation as usual. …
The falcon is leaving the eyrie for longer periods of time
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As the eyasses are getting bigger the falcon is tending to leave the eyrie for longer periods of time. Yesterday she was away from the eyasses for just over one …
WeBS – May 2011
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Yesterday afternoon we carried out the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) for May, the monthly stock-take of all the waterbirds on the Reserve. Unlike last month when the sun was splitting …
Wildlife Blog 15th May 2011
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Events from the nest: At 6.21 our resident male 7Y arrived on the nest allowing the female a break from incubation until 6.58. 7Y then caught a large fish in …
Wildlife Blog 14th May 2011
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Events from the nest today: It is now over a month since the first egg was laid by our female on the 13th April and here, at Loch of the …
Tiercel chases buzzard out of the nesting site
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There was a lot of excitement at the peregrine site yesterday as we had an intruder fly into the nesting area. To start with the tiercel was sitting on his …
Wildlife Blog 13th May 2011
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Events from the nest today: After the blog was posted yesterday, our male osprey brought another large fish to the nest at 8.30pm. Our female then flew away with the …
Wildlife Blog 12th May 2011
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Events from the nest today: This morning, a fish was delivered to the nest at 4.41am by our male. As usual, our female osprey took the fish and flew off …