Visited Nimrod’s eyrie three times today and at each visit the new male HA was at the nest, in the afternoon he brought a nice trout to the nest – dashed back at 7.30pm but still no sign of Nimrod – guess the weather has been overcast further south in the mountains – surely he’ll be back tomorrow – I wonder if he will succeed in shifting the intruder, which has now invested a good deal of time and work at the site. Checking other nest sites during the day – great to see an old regular female of 18 years (the first osprey I satellite tracked back in 1999 – which wintered in Extremadura and probably still does), and also pleased to see a pair rebuilding in a dead Scots pine, which had lost their old nest in the heavy snow falls of February. In my travels saw two red kites, which is unusual in Moray and Nairn..
April 14, 2009