Beau and Swift have spent several long periods (56 and 73 minutes) together now, quite quietly, with little interaction.
In fact, in this case
, he seems to be asleep (or just very, very tired boy) while she stands guard.
I’m off to Sydney today to the Fenner conference on the environment. Back late Friday night, so hopefully Scott can keep an eye on things.
Quote for pesticide testing is $A110 (ex-student of mine, so good price), so will do this, but will wait until other two eggs safely hatched. There shouldn’t be any nasty pesticides in the area. Australia is fairly strict about these things, but you never know.
Many thanks for the update, Cilla. That capture of them both is so beautiful!
I hope your conference goes well.
Yes, thank you for the updates, Cilla! Safe travels to the conference.
I hope this works, Cilla – here’s a link to the Loch Garten osprey webcam. At the moment it’s showing a bird feeder but just after mid-March it will move back to the enormous osprey nest.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/seenature/reserves/guide/l/lochgarten/abernethyvideo.aspx
Congratulations….Hatch #1 at approximately 12:58 pm
What a thrill to see the hatch – out of the blue, we’ve been pip-watching so closely but didn’t get a clue 🙂
Here’s a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MibDo0RlIhA
And I hope these snaps will post OK:
http://i.imgur.com/RL9OlSq.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WgH1ocH.jpg
I’m so pleased for you all – especially the proud parents!
What a wonderful thing to wake up to 🙂 Congratulations everybody!
I think this is the first egg laid, the pale one, easy to recognise. That would make it 36 days from laying to hatching.
(They did start full incubation right away, so this is the right time frame. 😉 )
‘Tis such wonderful news indeed & ‘our Scylla’ here has captured a vid of the moment, we are so lucky!
I think that this is the hatchling’s first meal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkOCOuDte7Q