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Recent Events

Heavy Weather

A calmer week for the Ospreys are back in Galloway nest following the drama of last weekend. Our chick grows ever larger by the day, oblivious to its fame in the national press and media after the “plastic incident”. Chick’s feathers are beginning to really grow in quickly and it spends large amounts of the day preening to alleviate the itching from its old fuzzy down. As well as feathers on its body, chick is developing a smart new tail with the classic blue colouring of new feathers growing in on the tail and under wings.

After his first tentative attempt to feed the chick last Saturday, our male EP has been filmed feeding chick on a couple of other occasions. Mum H/D has also been breaking her pattern this week and as the chick grows older she is beginning to feel comfortable leaving it alone in the nest for sometimes up to an hour.

Continuing our theme of changes, a further break to note this week – the weather! After four weeks of largely glorious sunshine and fair weather, and the extreme heat of Wednesday, both Friday and Saturday mornings brought with them a torrential downpour. Thunder and lightning were also reported in the region and the Ospreys are back in Galloway live pictures were interrupted by power cuts. Anxious times – what were the ospreys doing? What might we be missing? Was chick being sheltered from the rain? But we needn’t have worried, for as the cameras came back on our chick was having a healthy meal of Flounder and looking unconcerned by life as ever. H/D has been doing a great job of sheltering chick from the rain, her oily feathers forming an impenetrable shield against the water until chick has developed waterproof protection of its own.

Updating on H/D’s son AW and grandchick over at Caerlaverock, we have a fantastic new photograph of the chick courtesy of Tony Lightley and the project at WWT Caerlaverock, taken as a new camera was installed to monitor the nest.