First egg at Port Lincoln for Mum and Dad and Gabby is home…Late Wednesday in Bird World

3 September 2025

Hello Everyone,

Two updates that have been sending this out late Wednesday.

We now have our first osprey egg for Mum and Dad at Port Lincoln! Oh, how excited am I. Now before I get too crazy, let us all just hope that the Fish Fairies are preparing to help out. We know that their assistance ensures that all of the osplets survive!

Dad was on hand to lend his support!

Gabby is home at the American Eagle Foundation’s NE Florida Nest!

Wednesday turned out to be just the perfect day. 14 C with a bit of a breeze, cloudy but some sun and clear blue skies. We took Toby for a walk in the crisp air at our local park. I don’t know why I always seem to forget about it – well, the bigger one. We also seem to have the most ‘small’ parks of any area of the city. Toby loved it! Then we took him for his blood work – Toby becomes a eunuch on Tuesday. He came home and was zonked.

Everyone is curled up somewhere today. After the heat and the humidity, I find it energising. The perfect fall day – tea and a fresh apple crisp.

I missed it! Do we think change can come to Virginia? SK Hideaways caught it and sent it to me. Thank you!

I keep trying to imagine a business where you destroy the entire supply chain and still hope to stay in business. How dumb is that!?

https://www.cbf.org/news-media/newsroom/2025/all/virginians-overwhelmingly-back-reforming-industrial-menhaden-fishery-amid-troubling-signs.html.

Gerald Doutre caught an osprey fishing in Bedford, Nova Scotia! Amazing little video on the Ospreys of Nova Scotia FB page.

Migration data from Hawk Mountain for this week:

History was made at the Dyfi Osprey Project on Wednesday. Brianne is still here. Idris beats Monty’s record and Brianne is the longest staying fledgling ever.

She’s still there while her two brothers are probably in West Africa by now.

Records are getting set to be made at Rutland Water’s Manton Bay nest. Blue 33 and Maya could become the first to arrive and the last to leave. They are still feeding 8. ​​Blue 33’s record stay, according to the chat, was on September 8, 2016. Keep your eyes on that nest!

8 is beating records too. He is 110 days old on Thursday and has surpassed the record of S3, according to Bart M on the chat.

Llyn Brenig had a second clutch and the family is still around!

Harry is ‘still’ feeding Forest at Alyth SS.

Wow. More sightings of Breac. Be sure to read Geemeff’s summary and check out the link. Gosh, I am so happy to hear this. Louis and Dorcha’s lad is doing well.

Geemeff’s Woodland Trust daily summary for Loch Arkaig Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Today we had the wonderful news of another sighting of Breac 7P7! Juan Luis Menéndez reported Breac was seen yesterday flying over a river in the next valley from where he photographed him on Saturday. He’s honing his skills and loading up on fish before he crosses to Africa and tackles the Sahara desert, unless he chooses to over-winter on the Iberian Peninsula which some Ospreys are doing.

 Speaking of fish, Steve Quinn has updated the interesting fish stats such as earliest, latest, fastest, which gives a flavour of how Louis’ season has gone. Conclusion – very well indeed! Link in the bonus section.
Night cam switches on (day cam): Nest One 21.03.26 (05.26.28); Nest Two 21.06.43 (05.46.00)
Today’s videos: none
Bonus fun fish facts – thanks Steve:

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/osprey-cam/?ht-comment-id=27816950

Blast from the past, this day in previous years:

https://youtu.be/U1onizty-us  N1 Twilight Zone: Ravishing Rannoch gleaming in the gloaming 2019

https://youtu.be/ZRc8W6788qA N1 Thanks, don’t mind if I do! Hoodie steals fish 2019

https://youtu.be/MAPUn0ZA0gU N1 Louis brings Vera a well-munched flatfish 2020

https://youtu.be/s7-mimTQJ6Y N2 Plenty of pretty Passerines 2022

https://youtu.be/4IaNI6hj5Gc N2 Sarafina gets her tail feathers tweaked by a cocky Corvid 2022

https://youtu.be/eRFbhBHYBjA N2 Sarafina, Louis, a fish and a Hoodie 2022

 https://youtu.be/hMVeYzEh228  N2 Juvenile Robin hops around the nest 2023  

https://youtu.be/rOk8rGBphpk  N2 Dyson looks forlorn on Dorcha’s perch 2023  

https://youtu.be/SANdIv1GZKc N2 A pair of Mistle Thrushes visit, a Raven flies nearby 2024 (zoom)

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/osprey-cam

In New Zealand, the Royal Cam chick is perfecting hovering and when the right wind comes, they will be off and it will not be long. Please skip over and watch this video by Cornell Bird Lab and then head over to the streaming cam to watch the excitement! https://youtu.be/I0W_mw8ENrg?

Here is the link to the Royal Cam streaming cam:

Waiting for breakfast and a break, Mum at 365 Collins Street in Melbourne.

See if you can access this live view with this link!

https://www.youtube.com/live/oibsohQ14cY?si=_D3bjobSZbd8KKwl

At the Charles Sturt Falcon Scrape in Orange, Australia, Diamond had a massive crop Thursday morning!

The little sea eaglets at the Olympic Forest Eagle Cam are too big to fit under Lady. Aren’t they adorable?

The Ventana Wildlife Society rushed to vaccinate the California Condors so that the small numbers did not succomb to Bird Flu. Can they save the Kakapo from Bird Flu?

Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can we vaccinate our rarest species before bird flu gets to them?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/02/new-zealand-vaccinations-rare-species-bird-flu-virus-pandemic-immunisation-migration?CMP=share_btn_url

It is a strange idea but keeping humans out of a landscape can help wildlife. Do we need to put landmines everywhere? Look what is happening at the DMZ in Korea, a remnant of the 1950s war that marks the boundaries of North and South Korea.

“Standing on top of a small mountain, Kim Seung-ho gazes out over an expanse of paddy fields glowing in their autumn gold, the ripening grains swaying gently in the wind. In the distance, North Koreastretches beyond the horizon.

“It’s so peaceful,” says the director of the DMZ Ecology Research Institute. “Over there, it used to be an artillery range, but since they stopped firing, the nature has become so beautiful.”

The land before him is the demilitarised zone, or DMZ, a strip of land that runs across the Korean peninsula, dividing North and South Korea roughly along the 38th parallel north.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/north-south-korea-war-demilitarised-zone-dmz-ecology-endangered-wildlife-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url‘ Landmines have become the greatest protectors’: how wildlife is thriving in the Korean DMZ 

Smile. Iris was still home on Wednesday at Hellgate Canyon.

Thank you so much for being with us today. Take care. Have a wonderful weekend. We will see you again on Monday!

I want to thank our notable contributors, ‘Geemeff and SK Hideaways’, the owners of the streaming cams listed in bold, the individuals who take the time to create videos ande post them on YouTube, and the administrators of FB groups such as Jeff Kear at UK Osprey Information, and all others, often too many to name. I am very grateful to you and to the newspapers like The Guardian that still cover environmental issues seriously. My blog would not be what it is without your input into the world of birding.