Four weeks old today
Doesn't time fly (excuse the pun!), our oldest chick is four weeks old today - happy birthday. They are really looking like ospreys now having progressed through the reptilian looking stage and staff, volunteers and visitors alike are attempting to work out whether we have a combination of boys and girls or whether they are all the same sex. Generally the whiter the bird the more likely it is to be male and conversely darker brown birds are typically female.
Here's the happy birthday girl/boy...
We'll have a better chance of determining their gender in a little over a week when we ring the chicks. We also weigh and measure them during this time which gives us a better idea, but more on this in the next blog or two.
Fishing forays become more frequent now - up to six fish a day. Usually a combination of mullet, trout, salmon and the odd coarse fish - today salmon seemed to be the fish of the day.
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More in a few days...