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Loch Garten osprey diary

 

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Saturday, 5 July 2008

One Male, One Female.... who would have predicted that

Posted by davidgascoigne

The eldest of our chick is, we believe, a female, the other, a male. They have been given leg rings and names. The female has a white leg ring with the letters AY and the male a white leg ring with the letters AZ. They take their names from the two local...

25 comments

Saturday, 5 July 2008

The cameras are being turned off this morning

Posted by davidgascoigne

We are ringing the chicks this morning and will take the opportunity of an empty nest to turn the cameras off and give them a good clean. You will not be missing anything as the ringing takes place on the ground. When the chicks reappear on the nest you...

5 comments

Friday, 4 July 2008

Ringing has not happened yet

Posted by davidgascoigne

You may have read on the webcam page that the ringing was meant to take place last night.... WELL.... it was supposed to but the elements defeated us. Heavy rain around 5.30pm meant that the chicks were too wet to ring and we postponed, the welfare of...

14 comments

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Everyone has an opinion

Posted by davidgascoigne

I made a decision to publish the opinions of Von and his concerns about the RSPB not saving the chick..... I decided to do this because he is entitled to his opinion and the point he made was put in a sensible and well constructed way. I may have opened...

84 comments

Sunday, 29 June 2008

A windy weekend at Loch Garten

Posted by clairefoot

It is really rather windy here at Loch Garten today. Those of you with access to the webcam, will have seen that EJ is getting blown about quite a bit up there on the nest. Orange VS, meanwhile, has spent most of the day swapping between his favoured...

134 comments

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