It is 32 C. No breeze. Bright sun. Hot. Toby doesn’t even want to go outside, and the girls aren’t hungry either. They are sleeping like they are on the Savannah.
There is so much news. I will miss some things today – Toby and I have made Lemon Hibiscus mini-cakes. Oh, they were so delicious and the most ugly things I have ever seen!!!!! A cake decorator I am not. But with a large glass of iced tea they hit the spot on a dreadfully warm day.
First, Walton has been returned to Monty and Hartley after having a bit of fun in the area! Walton also had a good meal.
The fourth egg for CJ7 and Blue 022 at Poole Harbour has hatched! Geemeff says around 0725 this morning.
The third chick hatched for Aeron Z2 and Blue 014 at the Pont Cresor nest in Glaslyn today.
And after, the third osplet hatched for Elen and Teifi at the Glaslyn nest near to the Pont Cresor platform.
Dual feeding at Rutland Water’s Manton Bay nest of Blue 33 and Maya for some ravenous babies. OK. Not babies anymore…they are growing. And more feedings…these three are always hungry.
Jack has been delivering some good fish to the kids on the Achieva nest in Florida. Little really wants to fly. Look at those wings. Anytime.
The fish do continue to come to the Dewey Beach nest with the single osplet. Oh, I hope this continues after Omega starts fishing. That baby and Mum are going to be so full.
Look at that crop. Thanks, ‘PB’
And then, an intruder osprey accidentally lost their Menhaden on the Dewey Beach nest and Mum and Baby ate it. Look at their crops.
Sure is nice to see Oyster Bay Mum without that green twine!
Geemeff’s Woodland Trust daily summary for Loch Arkaig Friday 29th May 2026
After a very damp day, tonight’s forecast is dry overnight with light cloud, light winds and a low of 10°C but it’ll change to more rain, gentle breezes and a high of 17°C tomorrow. There were no intrusions or alarms today on either nest, just two soggy females spending most of the day protecting their precious eggs which are due to start hatching next week. The males relieved them from time to time, taking over incubation duties while they went off to stretch their wings and eat their fish. Garry LV0 delivered one fish to Aurora 536 and the Nest One tally now stands at eighty eight, while Louis delivered two fish to Dorcha, taking the Nest Two tally to ninety four.
Thank you so much for being with us today. I did not expect to be posting but there is a lot happening and my blog only touches the surface! Take care everyone. See you soon.
Thank you to PB, SK Hideaways, Geemeff, and Jeff Kear at the UK Osprey Information FB page. I am grateful to everyone who has posted images on FB and information as well as the owners of the cameras who let us watch these incredible bird families.
It is hot, hot on the Canadian Prairies. We now have a yellow heat warning. This means that we had our breakfast on the deck and watered all the plants before the heat around 1100 set in. We also walked Toby, cleaned all the bird baths and left cool water and dreamed of a fountain for the birds! We are expecting 32 C – direct sun but still cooler than it was in London the other day. Today we are both 28 C.
For the first time in years, the very old crabapple tree in the front of our house is covered in blooms from the top to the bottom, back to front!
We plant trees to remember people and animals. The apple tree was here when we bought the house and we were told that along with the single peony plant and the wild roses, it was from 1902. The tall Blue Spruce to the left was planted in 1999 in memory of our son William. It was only about 2.7 metres high at the time. It is now about 16 metres tall. The Scotch pine to the left of it was planted for Don’s mother when she died. There are three other trees you cannot see – all in memory of cats (Tootie, Melvin, and Honey).
This tree is amazing and it makes me so hopeful even in this heat. There are little birds, Red-eyed Vireos that have their nest in this apple tree. By the middle of June, I am expecting that 3/4 of my property will be a canopy of cool for all the birds and animals that come to us – and for us, too.
Please plant trees if you can.
I am going to start with a nest that needs your help. Oyster Bay. You will see another post that there were people at the nest cleaning up. Go to the live stream, and you will see that the green rope appears to be wrapped around the female. The nest is owned by PSEG, the electric company on Long Island. The same company that ran the camera on the Patchogue osprey nest. Thank you.
There is a baby on that nest – at least one. Here are the images of that green twine.
Rescue and Rehabilitation in the area: If you encounter an injured or distressed raptor (such as an osprey, owl, or hawk) in the Oyster Bay area, immediately contact the Wildlife Centre of Long Island via their Wildlife Hotline at (516) 674-0982 or email info@wildlifecenterli.org.
I did not know last night but the smallest peregrine falcon fludged and flew at the San Jose City Hall nest. Everyone was worried. No sightings. This is the latest news.
Send this little one your most positive wishes. I am going to be saying this a lot today as we need to continue to ‘support’ Snow’s nest and hope that the heat on Dewey Beach doesn’t kill the only osplet….so just, please, keep our raptors in your hearts and minds as they go through various challenges.
‘MP’ sent me a note. Do you know this nest? I do but I have not been following it so I appreciate the update. This is disturbing.
“There is a nest on Long Island that needs some hope. She laid three eggs and is now brooding one chick. An intruder startled the female during the nighttime hours when the camera is off, causing her to kick the chick and one egg out of the nest bowl killing the chick. The third egg hatched and she is brooding her now.
This nest is always dirty with trash the two adults obviously find precious. They do need support. The quote below is from the conservation biologist, Michael Farina, at the site.
“The incident happened during the nighttime hours when the camera is shut down to conserve battery life. We hypothesise that the female sleeping during the night after the first chick hatched (5/8/26) was violently startled, causing her to kick the chick and an egg out of the nest, leaving only one egg left. Possibly by a Great Horned Owl or another osprey in the area. The 3rd egg hatched on 5/12/26.” Michael Farina wrote.”
The surviving chick is 16 days old today. They need to do something about that owl – just like every other streaming cam needs to protect their ospreys from owls because we have the red strobe technology that can help.
Eggs being incubated at Landscape Arboretum in Minnesota. Dad stays close.
A nest clean up has taken place. If you see ospreys in dire straits due to human garbage, flood the owners of the streaming cams and local rescue. You can just Goggle the location of the nest and ask for contact information on local raptor rescues.
After cleaning:
RSPB Loch Garten have now declared that Blue KL5, mate to Myrtle, and osprey who kicked out three eggs, has met his demise. He has been missing for too long during a critical period of the breeding season.
KL5 kicking out the eggs.
The Traverse City nest seems to be holding at about a 45 degree angle. Adult was in the nest feeding Snow earlier today! Please, please, keep sending positive energy. Snow is only 47 days old and we need a good 2-3 weeks for this eagle to get its wing strength and coordination to fly and then it needs to return to the nest for a good month to be fed by the parents while it perfects its flying.
DH3 is older than Snow and is making itself comortable higher and higher on the branches of the nest tree.
First hatch at Carova Beach for Frederick and Betsy.
Oh, my heart skips a beat every time I see a little osplet being fed fish. Here is Poole Harbour – looks like egg 4 could be a Dudley.
Pitkin County has two osplets. Here is the info below the cam, but it doesn’t include the second hatch. Do you know?
🥚Osplet #1 Laid: 12.4.26, Hatched around 3.36 am 21.5.26 🥚Osplet #2 Laid: 15.4.26 🥚Osplet #3 Laid: 18.4.26
Two chicks at PSEG’s Oyster Bay nest.
I want to draw everyone’s attention to Gayle Gordon’s FB page. Many of you might have read her posts. I am including some of her recent posts because they are hugely important. I respect the research she does and the corrections she makes to false information circulating on social media. I have written to her and have received permission to cut and paste her posts. Instead, she is sending me links to them. Please read and get involved in the conversation. We need to save our wildlife – and we definitely do not need false information stirring the pot. Chaos makes us tired. We need our energy, instead, to help.
Thank you, Gayle, for allowing me to share your work with my readers.
Everything you need to know about the Cyanide Bombs written by Gayle Gordon -this is such a huge thread to the entire food chain that I am shocked anyone would even consider using cyanide bombs in 2026.
We have talked about how people in various European countries care for storks. The retired man in Croatia, who for years cared for a White Stork around the clock and then fished so she and her mate, who still migrated, has continued to warm my heart years after she died and Klepatan stopped coming. ‘LC’ sent me this today – it is a historic reminder of that decade and a half of devotion. There are some remarkable human beings.
The historyofcoolkids included this history on the chat:
“In 1993, retired Croatian school janitor Stjepan Vokić found a wounded female stork named Malena after she had been injured by hunters and left unable to migrate.
He rescued her and cared for her at his home in the village of Brodski Varoš, where she spent winters indoors because she could no longer survive the long journey south.
In 2001, a male stork named Klepetan began visiting her nest. Every spring, Klepetan migrated nearly 13,000 kilometers from South Africa back to Croatia to reunite with Malena, always returning to the same rooftop nest. Because Malena could not hunt or fly long distances, Vokić helped feed the pair and care for their young. Over the years, they raised 66 chicks together.
In 2021, Malena passed away of old age after 28 years under Vokić’s care, reportedly with Klepetan beside her.
Klepetan still visits Malena’s grave beneath an apple tree whenever he returns to the village, something considered highly unusual behavior for a stork.
Why didn’t he stay with her? When she could survive in that location alone, then he also could have had! He just migrated each time to avoid the hardships of the harsh season and went back during the mating season.”
If you are interested, search for Malena and Klepetan on YouTube. There is also a book about their love story. It is a great insight into avian behaviour.
I will post Geemeff’s daily report on Loch Arkaig tomorrow. I am hoping that some of you will call the Wildlife Centre on Long Island to try and get help to Oyster Bay. PSEG owns the platform, and as a utility company, they have the equipment. It is a human-made problem, so permits should not be an issue. Thank you for caring.
Thank you so much for being with us today. Please check out Gayle Gordon’s FB page and sign up to join the conversation. Here is the information again:
Thank you to those who sent me notes today including ‘PB, SP, LC’, to the authors of FB posts that are both educational and informative, the authors of newsletters, and the owners of streaming cams that allow us to witness the lives of these extraordinary creatures. Thank you also to Gayle Gordon for letting me share her posts today.
My goodness gracious. We had hoped to plant but it is freezing outside. With the wind it is – 2 C. They are even saying we could have snow as it is now snowing in places three hours north of us! I can’t believe it. Even Toby didn’t want to be out in the cold wind today. We did not go to the greenhouse. We could have but it would have meant having all the plants inside and some of the cats would have destroyed them before I could get them planted. So it has been a rather lazy day and instead of a barbecue it was a pot of warming soup.
P3 is tiny compared to P1. P3 often stays away from the two older hawks, preferring to sleep on the opposite side of the nest bowl. Laura Culley told me once, aeons ago, that this might indicate a change in gender. So let’s consider that the two older ones are females, and this little one is a male.
To the shock of everyone, Arthur got to do a tandem feeding with Big Red on Saturday.
P3 and two different feedings. Dryed off in the second.
Nice crop for P3.
How many remember the lovely and quite successful osprey family on the PSEG nest at Patchogue, New York? There is currently no cam but ‘L’ sent me a note that Isaac had posted that the osprey family is on the nest.
SK Hideaways Videos, Week of 10 May 2026
FOBBV Eagles ~ Big Bear Valley, CA~ Jackie, Shadow, Sandy, and Luna Nest Cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE Wide View Cam (Cam 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41eq4VzCYc4 LIVE Recap & Observations https://bit.ly/3Md8TSz Sandy & Luna Share Goodnight Beaky Kisses 💕 Shadow Tucks Family In💤(2026 May 11) Sandy and Luna cuddled up at dusk to share some beaky kisses (and perhaps leftover feesh) and cuddle up for the night. Shadow checked in to make sure all was well, wished Jackie sweet eagle dreams, and headed off to his nighttime roost. Video: https://youtu.be/8p8GKklfutw
Fraser Point Eagles~ Santa Cruz Island, CA ~ Cruz, Andor, Sasha, Zuma, and Ryder Courtesy Institute for Wildlife Studies | explore.org | Fraser Point Eagles Cam Ops Nest Cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4V_AppZ6s
On a 9-fish day, the eaglets sported bowling ball-sized crops and Cruz was on an allopreening mission (2026 May 15) It was a 9-fish day for Sasha, Zuma, and Ryder at Fraser Point. Cruz brought 4 to the nest; Andor 5. The eaglets enthusiastically accepted all 9 and ended the day with ginormous crops. Throughout the afternoon, Cruz was intent on allopreening Zuma ~ there was no escape. The eaglets are 7 weeks old. Video: https://youtu.be/U3vjDarjWDQ
Banding: Hartley & Monty Mounted a Harrowing Defense ~ Banders Were Unflinching San Jose City Hall Falcons ~ San Jose, CA (2026 May 13) Once again, banding day at the San Jose City Hall peregrine falcon nest was an epic event beginning with Hartley and Monty’s aerial defense that didn’t cease for the entire 2-1/2 hours. The remarkable banding team of Zeka Glucs, director Predatory Bird Research Group; Gavin Emmons, wildlife biologist; and Kaitlin Lopez, condor crew lead at Pinnacles National Park were unflinching as they completed their mission quickly and efficiently.
The video covers the preamble to the “featherless monsters’” arrival, a step-by-step view of the banding, lots of Hartley and Monty’s aerial defense, and the happy aftermath. Video: https://youtu.be/xAj20H9x1OI
Dr. Zeka Glucs gave us a trip report afterwards: “You’ve all heard by now that we found out all four chicks in this clutch are male. Four boys! That is a first for this nest site and will make Fledgewatch very exciting, I’m sure, as males can fledge early and fly fast. These nestlings now have one band on each leg to help us track them throughout their lifetimes: a silver USGS Bird Banding Lab band that may temporarily be sporting some colored electrical tape for easy identification, and black visual ID band with a 4-digit alphanumeric code. The bands for each bird are as follows:
1. Male, left leg 70/BH, right leg blue tape 2. Male, left leg red tape, right leg 67/BH 3. Male, left leg yellow tape, right leg 53/BH 4. Male, left leg 71/BH, right leg no tape (silver)
“You may also notice the new radio transmitters mounted to the black VID bands. They are slipped onto an existing flange on the band with a drop of superglue. You can learn a little more about these hip new transmitters here: https://celltracktech.com/pages/blumorpho?srsltid=AfmBOor3VcKJblv-5sA6yBQaTUwFyRuVVJjCXXrVhLFtYvxThd9cRgEv. Currently all of them are transmitting and it will be very interesting to see how they work when the chicks leave the nest and are on the move!” Chicks Venture Outside Nest Box for First Time! Utter Chaos Begins 🤭(2026 May 12) An exciting new phase began for Hartley and Monty’s chicks as all four ventured out of the nest box for dinner. Hartley and Monty both fed the chicks before they returned to the safety of the only home they’ve known for their whole 3-week lives. They’re blissfully unaware of the even bigger adventure that awaits them tomorrow, when they’ll be banded, checked, and sexed. Video: https://youtu.be/lpnLXUv1DfY Chicks Still Line-up for Meals ~ Exit Angels, Enter Raptors (2026 May 10) Seemingly overnight, the 20-day-old chicks went from angel eaters to mini raptors, earning their designation as such. This extended feeding footage shows that change, as well as their progress in learning to self-feed. Monty delivered prey #7 while #6 was in progress. The chicks’ eating gusto remained high. Video: https://youtu.be/fmXQomZJoKc
Cholyn & Chase Spend Mother’s Day Together ~ Their Bond Stronger than Ever(2026 May 10) Cholyn and Chase have been devoted partners for 23 years. Today they bonded all around their special Two Harbors territory ~ chortling, beaky kissing, and gazing into each other’s beautiful eyes. A romance for the ages, if you’re a romantic. Or a remarkable bond, if you prefer a more ornithological view. Video: https://youtu.be/L_Xp_wOeyQw
Geemeff’s Woodland Trust daily summary for Loch Arkaig Saturday 16th May 2026
Another uneventful day, just a momentary alarm for Dorcha as she was startled by a little Willow Warbler, who was probably the more startled of the two given Dorcha’s huge size especially when those massive wings are unfurled. Light rain is falling at the time of this report (midnight) and forecast to continue through the night with a low of 6°C, changing to thundery showers tomorrow with a high of 12°C. Both Dorcha and Aurora 536 received two fish each from their respective mates Louis and Garry LV0. The Nest Two tally rises to sixty four, and the Nest One to sixty six fish. Steve Quinn has had a good look at the fish stats to date, the hyvor comment system won’t allow the links to be posted so just pop fish counting summary into the search box (on the right above the featured comment) and you’ll be able to read his excellent current and previous analyses.
It is being reported that M15 has a new female friend at the SW Florida Bald Eagle nest after losing Harriet and then his second mate, F23, this season.
Surviving eaglet at the White-tailed Eagle nest in the Hebrides is doing well.
Take care, everyone. Thank you so much for being with us for this quick check in on a few of the nests!
Thank you to ‘L’ for some great updates, to SK Hideaways and Geemeff for their wonderful video links and reports on so many nests, to the owners of the streaming cams and those that report on FB. We are always grateful!
The scrape boxes across the world have been welcoming eyases for about a week. Besides tulips and the crocus pushing their way up, the hatching in the scrapes is a sure sign that spring is truly here. Cute little fluffy white bundles with pink accessories. So sweet.
Manchester, New Hampshire has a scrape full! For once, every egg hatched. Remarkable.
Salisbury Cathedral! Four.
Cromer is hatching.
Chichester Cathedral has new hatchlings.
San Jose City Hall started hatching this morning! Thanks ‘B’ for letting me know.
Ares and Astrid have been incubating their four eggs in Utica, New York for 31 days today. We are on pip watch!
Want more information on the Utica Falcons, head to this link where you will find historical information, updates, and all the camera views.
Of course, the hatch that warms my heart and brought tears of such joy I was overcome happened in the scrape box at The Campanile on the grounds of UCal-Berkeley. Three eggs. Two presumed to be Grinnell’s, the last one Alden’s. First hatch this morning with what is appearing to be a crack in at least one other egg. The one thing we can say about the falcons is that they don’t waste any time getting out into the world!
Our first good look at Grinnell’s baby, wet and pink skinned.
You can see the crack in the second egg in the image below.
Our beautiful Mum, Annie.
CalFalcons made a short video clip of the first hatch.
At 11:01 Alden comes to check on things and wants to take over incubation.
Everything is going just fine. That cute little one and its precious wing is dried off. Maybe there will be one more this evening!
Thank you for joining me today for a round up on the Falcons! It has been a fantastic day! Take care everyone.
Thank you to the following streaming cams where I took my screen captures: Cal Falcons, San Jose City Hall, Utica Falcons, Salisbury Cathedral Falcons, Chichester Cathedral Falcons, Cromer Peregrines, and Manchester NH Peregrine Network.
