I am going to go out on a limb here and you can get ready to hit me with tomatoes or eggs if I am wrong!
Iris began a little toe dance and cheeping and at 11:34 a male flew in with a fish for her which she accepted readily. That male has long white legs. I believe Finnegan has arrived.
Iris accepts the fish cheeping and cheeping. The male flies away.
Do I dare think that Finnegan arrived and went fishing for his Iris? and then flew off for himself?
This is not ‘Louis behaviour’. And the cheeping by Iris is not what she does with Louis when he flies in for his daily ‘stop’.
Waiting for confirmation.
Thank you to the Montana Osprey Project and Cornell Bird Lab for their streaming cam.
I went to the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1990 and received my PhD from the University of Leicester in 1993. After three decades of university teaching, I retired to devote my time to the study of raptor behaviour. I am particularly interested in Ospreys and am working on a long term project on third hatch survival and siblicide in these raptors. My blog is a result of a fascination with my local wildlife and the desire to encourage others to love and care for birds! I live on the Canadian Prairies and prior to the pandemic travelled a lot. I am questioning the use of aviation fuel at the moment as we all strive to help our planet. My early research was in politics and art including British public statues exported to Southeast Asia and Vietnam Resistors that contributed much to Canadian ceramics. Books and articles were published on those subjects over a period of 3 decades. Now I am working on books for children so they can learn about the challenges our raptors face.
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Crossing my fingers that was Finnegan!!! Hoping, hoping, hoping!!!
Blue Z0 came to Iris’s rescue this morning. He got Louis to leave.