Saw this on FB, one dead and one alive! How did they get so far apart???   

Polly & Argo

May 23

Still no egg hatching at Loch of the Lowes osprey nest -yet. Everyone has been asking us if we are worried or have given up hope and the short answer is : NO!  I have been joking that the eggs have been waiting until Ranger Emma is back from sick leave ( today) until they hatch -so it should be anytime now!

Today is only  day  40 f0r egg number one , day  37 for egg number two and day 34  for egg number three. Bearing in mind the normal incubation range is 35-40 days, you can see we are still well within normal parameters. It is impossible to be 100% certain which egg was lost in the crow attack ( though we have our strong suspicions) so we are keeping an open mind  and there is still plenty of time for egg two or three to hatch.

Whilst we have not been seeing a lot of behavioural changes in the adults ( such as head titling and listening to the eggs)  these can be very subtle and are not a very reliable indicator of hatching being close.

Lots of people have been asking if the birds know the eggs are not viable and if this explains why they have left them more often this year. We think this is highly unlikely as, if the eggs were unviable, the birds wouldn’t bother incubating them at all- ospreys have often been known to remove damaged eggs from the nest.

Blue YD our young satellite tracked osprey is back in the UK and we will bring you news of his further adventures as soon as we get it. The transmitter  has now moved to a cycle of uploading data every four days so we will bring you more information as soon as we have it.

And we thought Crows were smart!!   

B went out and grabbed it  djc

3:10 pm djc

Getting antsy in there!! FOOD!! We want food!!
She has to go find her own!

Looking for DC



Shaky, can you pull back on the cam just a bit, it chops their heads off! Thanks

DC, did he drop off that morsel?

DC on wall B left  Gone again gone again

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Dead-bald-eagle-in-Pa-killed-by-euthanizing-drugs-5500487.php 

Getting Big!

Sure are!! 

Mercury statue being removed from the Kimball Tobacco Factory, 1951 - not to return until 1973   

http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/6159131-74/bridge-commission-game?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+alltribstories+%28TribLIVE+News%29#axzz32VTCKgOU

Parting the sea of traffic, PennDOT trucks blocked off a small portion of the Tarentum Bridge on Thursday morning to make a safe haven to retrieve and inspect two young peregrine falcons

Surprise, they are older than they thought!

Something white!

http://www.twincities.com/outdoors/ci_25799186/an-old-eagles-final-flight-from-minnesotas-northern

Frank Walsh was looking out the window of his house on Oak Island watching the ice melt April 29 when he noticed a bald eagle at the edge of the icepack about 300 yards from shore.

And so began the adventure of saving a bald eagle -- if only to give the old guy a less-painful death.