24 June 2024
Oh, good morning. We are celebrating today. We have a late hatch baby osplet in Latvia!!!!!!!! Oh, tears and jumping up and down. Oh, please let this little one be safe. It appears the second egg has a hole in it. Just overjoyed. Ospreys are so rare in Latvia. Everyone must be celebrating. Congratulations Selgas and Svinga.
The Estonian Osprey nest of M1 and IIris has sadly failed. The ospreys continue to visit the nest on occasion. M1 has covered the egg on and off. The camera is now offline.
There is sad news coming from the Finnish Osprey nest at Seili. First two eggs did not hatch. The third did hatch and was predated by a Crow.
Look at those two beautiful osplets, fully feathered, in Napiwodzko-Ramucka in Poland.
The two Golden Eaglets in Estonia nest #2 are doing so well. It is late on Sunday and no food has arrived yet. They had good ‘ps’ early in the day.
The name given to the only Golden Eagle on the Estonian nest #1 is Diana.
The two gorgeous Eastern Imperial Eagles in Tatarstan RU are doing so well.
The Lesser Spotted Eaglet, Ieva, in Zemgale, Latvia is so cute. It is beginning to get its feathers. Mum Anna spends much time preening her little one. One thing I have found interesting is when Ieva casts a pellet, Anna will often share that pellet with Ieva as food again. There were lots of frogs on the menu for the 23rd, Sunday. After so many, many frogs, Andris shows up with a vole. I have not seen him on the nest recently so this is fantastic.
The first time the chicks in the Tweed Valley nest of Mrs O have seen the sun in 21 days. It must feel wonderful and it will dry out that nest. So many lost to weather. Glad to see these three nicely feathered and surviving!
The three osplets at the Oxford, MA nest (camera run by Oxfordma.us) look to be almost completely feathered and extremely healthy. A little older than the ones in Tweed Valley.
The four osplets at Field Farm are drying out after heavy rains.
Dad got the fish in and Little Mini is at the beak at Field Farm!
At Bridge Golf, both osplets had a nice fish lunch.
Fish on the nest at Moorings Park and Ruffy watches the water.
At the US Steel Bald Eagle nest of Irvin and Claire, their only eaglet, Lucky, fledged on Sunday! Congratulations everyone.
And now there is concern for Lucky. Send positive wishes.
Three babies at Blackush so far looking good. Weather is off and on miserable.
Last breeding season, the lovely Marders nest failed. All the chicks died for no apparent reason. The owner of the property followed all advice and protocols and had them picked up for a necroscopy. It is possible they were too decomposed. This year, the family has one two week old osplet and two DNH eggs.
Two beautiful fledglings returning to the nest for fish at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science platform.
Mum at Pitkin County working hard to keep her three osplets cool in the rising heat of Colorado.
Rainy, hot, and humid at Great Bay. It finally dries up. Three gorgeous osplets.
‘H’ hasher reports for us!
6/23 The Osoyoos osprey nest continues to do well. The 13, 15, and 16-day-old chicks are looking good. There were 8 feedings that I saw. There was no sign of sibling rivalry or aggression. Some of the fish were tiny, but some were medium in size. Little missed out on the first meal that consisted of a small fish, because he was sleepy and waited to approach…”He who hesitates….” Little only ate two bites of fish at the second meal, because the fish was so tiny. Later, Little ate his/her share at the other meals, right up at Soo’s beak, side by side with the big kids.
6/23 Fortis Exshaw osprey nest: Harvie is an excellent fisher, and he delivered three whoppers and a smaller fish today. There were 8 meals, some of which consisted of leftovers from the whoppers. There was no sign of aggression at the meals. Little is handicapped…well, by being little, lol. S/he simply cannot reach as far toward Louise’s beak as the bigger kids, but he manages to get fed, especially toward the end of the meals. Little did not eat at the last meal of the day, simply because the fish was small. All is good at this nest.
6/23 Fenwick Island osprey nest (Capt Mac’s Fish House): There were six meals provided for the 8-day-old babe, which was an improvement. The meals were also a little longer in duration. Male ospreys usually wisely remove leftover fish from the nest to avoid enticing predators, and Johnny is very diligent about that. At 1350, it had been 5.5 hours since the last meal, and June fed from a nice sized fish. This time, June prevented Johnny from taking the leftover piece of fish. June fed the osplet again in an hour, and the kiddo had a very nice crop! In fact s/he had a nice crop a couple of times today. Good. Now, if Johnny could just deliver more fish…
6/23 Audubon Boathouse osprey nest: The 9 and 5-day-old siblings are doing well. There is never a shortage of fish provided by Skiff. And, Dory is a great mom, always ensuring that both of her youngsters are fed.
6/23 Captiva Osprey nest: This family had a very good day. The new fledgling, Ding, made several flights off the nest, and she made some very nice landings back on the nest, and also onto the perch. Darling performed her first hover high enough that s/he was out of our view. And, Darling walked up onto a perch for the first time. There were five fish delivered to the nest, and Jack brought four of them. Overnight 6/24, the kids had a
There has been an accidental fledge at the Avon Lake Bald Eagle nest with three eaglets. More information to follow.
Even rehabbers, especially rehabbers, need to remember. IF you can PICK UP a Peregrine Falcon and hold it and you are not doing that to put on its bands, then THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE BIRD. It truly is that simple. You don’t want that raptor rendering your arm useless.
Oh, Monty and Hartley’s chicks are soooooo cute.
Iris and Finnegan have their hands full with these two osplets. You can immediately tell the difference in development just looking at them. But, oh, so cute! Finnegan spent Saturday night on the perch protecting Iris and the babies. Gosh, I love this guy.
‘PB’ reports that some bonking/dominance is taking place between Iris and Finnegan’s chicks. The oldest is in the Reptile Stage. Maybe it is a female. Iris is good, though. She makes sure both of those babies get stuffed to the top!
Bless his heart. Finnegan just keeps bringing in the fish for the family!
Cute little babies at Charlo Montana.
The camera is not great but we can now clearly see three osplets on the Collins Marsh nest on top of a relocated Wild Fire Watch Tower in Wisconsin.
Cowlitz PUD is looking good!
Geemeff’s summary for Loch Arkaig and The Woodland Trust:
Daily summary Sunday 23rd June 2024
Calm was the order of the day, the weather was settled and the two chicks behaved impeccably. Dorcha had a bit of fun with an unwieldy stick which, after causing chaos, was lost overboard. Garry LV0 paid a flying visit to Nest One and a little bird did a quick flit round too. The star of today was Louis, who loomed up out of the darkness at 14 minutes and 23 seconds before midnight with a record-breaking latest delivery fish, to take his total for the day to five fish and his season’s tally to two hundred and forty one. Tonight’s forecast for Inver Mallie which includes the nest area, is partly cloudy and light winds. Perhaps Louis will do a spot more fishing – it will be interesting to see what time he delivers the first fish tomorrow.
Night cam switches on (day cam): Nest One 00.09.26 (03.09.37); Nest Two 23.30.31 (03.43.42)
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Today’s videos:
https://youtu.be/Mw1wYciPyBg N2 Fish number, one live trout, chicks line up politely 06.28.23
https://youtu.be/NiluW_gKrG0 N2 Fish number two, headless trout, chicks still polite 08.26.17
https://youtu.be/e1DJpaL8Dlo N2 Dorcha causes chaos with a stick, tbut it soon goes overboard 11.02.20
https://youtu.be/e3oZRUuHIzs N1 GarryLV0 visits for just seven seconds 13.31.19 (zoom)
https://youtu.be/gZDgFJrJfMo N2 Fish number three, smallish headless trout, Dorcha doles out evenly 13.47.14
https://youtu.be/0yXwS1_ft18 N2 Fish number four, whole flatfish, chicks are not very enthusiastic but queue up anyway 15.48.34
https://youtu.be/kqS35fIdnn8 N1 A little bird makes a brief flit around and underneath 20.38.30
https://youtu.be/35Zn71fWiCg N2 Fish number five, headless trout – breaks all-time latest delivery record! 23.45.37
Bonus watch – Woodland Trust’s video for World Rainforest Day 2024:
Oh, wonderful news coming from ‘AM’ and Port Lincoln: “Ervie arrived at the nest at 11:42 in Port Lincoln! He was kicked out by his mother at 12:17:43!”
I was just able to rewind. Ervie on the nest and then on the perch. There is some suspicions that Ervie is a female because Mum kicked ‘her’ out. Mum did not respond that way to Calypso (2019 hatch) who was believed to be female but turned out to be a male. The pair mated on the nest.
Thank you so much for being with me today. Please take care. See you soon!
Thank you to the following for their posts, notes, comments, pictures, articles, videos, and streaming cams that helped me to write my post today: ‘A, AM, Geemeff, H, J, PB’. LDF, Eagle Club of Estonia, Seili Osprey Cam, Pybolowy Online, Tatarstan Eastern Imperial Eagle Cam RU, Tweed Valley Osprey Project, Oxford MA Ospreys, Field Farm, Bridge Golf, Moorings Park, Deb Stecyk, Blackish, Marders, VIMS, Pitkin County, Great Bay Ospreys, Iowa Bird Rehabilitation, SK Hideaways, Montana Osprey Project, Montana Osprey Cam, Charlo Montana, Cowlit PUD, Window to Wildlife, Fortis Exshaw, Osoyoos Ospreys, Kent Island, Fenwick Island, Greemeff and The Woodland Trust, Port Lincoln Ospreys, and Collins Marsh.
