Thursday
2nd April
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EJ
lands on the nest with a fish at 4.56pm
[Prior to her return, a pine marten had been visiting the nest, digging a hole to use as a toilet. EJ soon put a stop to that and the hole is in the process of being covered]
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Monday
6th April
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Odin
lands on nest in the early hours of this morning c1.30am, mates with EJ
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Saturday
18th April
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Egg #1
laid 3.49pm
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Tuesday
21st April
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Egg #2
laid shortly before 10.00am
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Friday
24th April
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Egg #3
laid 7.21am
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Sunday
26th April
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Odin
fights off an intruder. Observed to have a small gash on his leg early am, thought to have been sustained in fight. The injury does not seem to bother him too much. Heavy snowfall today.
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Monday
27th April
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Persistent male intruder still around.
See: Sky Wars
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Tuesday
28th April
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Male intruder still causing problems, divebombing EJ and landing on nest
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Saturday
2nd May
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After a few days of constant incursions and battles, peace seems to have been restored.
See: Battle of the Birds
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Wednesday
6th May
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Peace was shortlived and there have since been repeated attacks on the nest by at least two male intruders, one of which has a blue Darvic on its left leg.
Odin was last seen 7.19am yesterday (Tuesday) morning when he brought EJ a fish.
See: Intruders
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Friday
8th May
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Still no sign of Odin and an unringed male appears to have won the battle for the nest. EJ continues to incubate and protect her eggs whilst fending off the victor's advances
Around 2.30pm the male brings in a fish. EJ flies off to eat it. After inspecting the eggs for a few minutes the male flies off briefly then returns and starts cup-scraping. Two eggs are kicked out to the rim, one of them appears broken, leaving one egg in the nest cup. EJ returns, finishes off the last bit of fish on the nest then settles down to incubate the single egg. She tries to roll one of the displaced eggs back into the nest but is unsuccessful
Other intruders still around causing trouble from time to time.
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Saturday
9th May
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Male breaks egg in nest cup at 8.54am whilst EJ is off the nest. EJ returns and removes what looks to be a pinkish piece of something (unclear what) and flies off to dispose of it. She continues to spend time in the nestcup as if still incubating. The other two eggs remain in view on the nest rim. EJ inspects them at one stage but does not attempt to move them
Male brings in a fish at 5.11pm, which EJ grabs. She nags him for more on her return. Settles down in the nest cup again.
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Sunday
10th May
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EJ
stops brooding. Spends more time off the nest. Male brings fish, which she accepts but rejects his attempts to mate
Odin returns - time since confirmed to be around 5.30am.
An eggshell had blown from the rim into the nest cup earlier, EJ is now brooding it.
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Monday
11th May
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The battle continues, on and off the nest. There seems to be at least three intruders involved, one of them female. Three birds mantling on the nest at one time.
Shortly after 7.50pm, EJ gently rolls the remaining egg, released from the rim by high winds blowing sticks around, back into the nest cup and proceeds to incubate it. The previous empty eggshell has since disintegrated.
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Tuesday
12th May
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The latest Loch Garten blog sheds some light on what has been happening.
See: The Boy is Back in Town
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Saturday
16th May
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A little more settled at the LG nest.
See: All Quiet on the Loch Garten Front
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Wednesday
20th May
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After a period of quiet, intruders return, including Fenryr. EJ leaves nest, abandoning her egg
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Thursday
21st May
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EJ returns to sit on her egg in the early hours of this morning. She spends most of the day brooding but then leaves the nest around 8.40pm and does not return
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Friday
22nd May
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EJ visits the nest only briefly, having finally given up on the egg
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Sunday
24th May
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As EJ and Odin are now spending more time off the nest, the webcams are switched between the camera tree camera (10am - for a wider view, plus panning, during the day) and the nest camera (6pm - close view overnight)
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Thursday
28th May
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EJ and Odin continue to defend against intruders and work on the nest. During a bout of cup-scraping by Odin, the egg is kicked out to the side. At 12.40pm Odin flies in and lands on the egg, which crumples and appears to have been empty
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Monday
1st June
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Around 12.26pm a ringed intruder lands briefly on the nest. Blue Darvic seen on left leg.
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Thursday
4th June
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A blue ringed intruder (Darvic left leg) spends time on and around the nest between 5.16am and 5.53am until EJ puts a stop to it
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Tuesday
9th June
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Loch Garten blog reports that the ringed intruder seen on the nest has been identified as Blue 65, that intruders are seen daily and that there is a second unidentified blue ringed bird around
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Tuesday
23rd June
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After being seen briefly on the camera tree this morning EJ goes missing
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Wednesday
24th June
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A blue ringed female intruder appears late afternoon in EJ's absence, spending the rest of the day on and around the nest. Odin provides her with a fish at 5.25pm
Female identified by LG staff as Blue YA (Darvic left leg)
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Thursday
25th June
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Blue YA still around and Odin provides her with another fish. EJ returns at 9.35am and sends her packing
See: The Loch Garten nest battle continues
Blue YA returns. Not to be easily ousted. A blue-ringed male is also involved, seen on the nest around 1.25pm. Later in the day two more intruders are seen. An unringed male, not thought to be Odin, along with a very dark unringed female who is delivered a fish by this male. She eats the fish on the nest and stays on to defend for more than an hour. Odin and EJ eventually regain the nest and Odin delivers a partly eaten fish to EJ at 10pm
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Wednesday
12th August
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EJ last seen just before 6am
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Friday
21st August
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Odin last seen around 3pm
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