Ospreys 2021

I would think the sight of someone up the tree, heaving a fish over the side, would be way more traumatic than the lack of food. This is the only drawback to webcams, we get to view things that are going on that are natural, but not pleasant. remember seeing some footage last year of an Osprey stand up and take a break on the perch and a Goshawk take a nano second to swoop in and take a reasonable sized chick.
 
It would have been a suicide mission for whoever undertook it those weather conditions. Some idiot also suggested dropping fish from a drone. Anything likely to scare Mrs G off the nest would be a disaster as the crows would be straight in for a chick. Live stream is still not running but BGGW said it would be sometime.
 
A drone drop, my God, what are some people on. Apart from the crows leaping in to grab any living chick unattended. A fish dropped from a great height could wipe the whole family out.
 
better news from Glaslyn this morning, chicks have fed well and Aran is looking much stronger and wing exercising.
Live streaming back on tomorrow at 8am.

OH speaks to a birder who watches the cob and harbour at Porthmadog and he saw the Pont Croeser male nearly come to grief on the Friday after the storm, he was fishing off the harbour and nearly got caught by a ships mooring rope that was slack then sprang taut in the heavy swell, then he dived onto something and just came up as two boats nearly made a sandwich of him. So it does seem possible that Aran came to grief down there, he also said there was lots of debris in the water
 
Anything likely to scare Mrs G off the nest would be a disaster as the crows would be straight in for a chick.
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What a pity it would be, if the crows somehow had a nasty accident .....
I’ll get my coat.
 
Yes it is very sad. The main concern now is that Aran regains sufficient strength before migration.

It has been a dreadful year for the ospreys in Wales. First the demolition of the Llyn Brenig nest by an idiot with a chainsaw; the accidental suffocation of one of the chick on the Dyfi nest; the injury to Aran and the subsequent death of the chicks at Glaslyn and only one out of three eggs hatched at Llyn Clywedog as its unlikely the other two will hatch now.
 
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