Had to spend a day without internet. Thank you all for the pictures of today.
b.h-p wrote:
You´re right Nancy - no reason to blame Elo for being what he/she is! A very young osprey.
To mix human feelings into observations of our Osprey family are not good for anything.
And now it´s final
have a good watch
I was only joking. I do know that Elo is driven by instinct. Maybe he/she needs this extra food at this point of growth more than his/her siblings. Could it be that Elo is the opposite gender? Nice to see Nori getting enough food today.
If snApe1118 make a video, he will also have to stick to the terms of copyright on YouTube cause some videos are hosted there.
Concerning Piret's nest decoration: All osprey nests have different appearance and construction. Many female ospreys carry sticks and branches to the nest although the chicks are able to fly like Ulla in the Latvian nest. Last week the storm blow off some branches of the rim. So I thought that Piret was eager to reconstruct that parts, but in the next days she only got some sticks now and then as usual. Two weeks ago I assumed she would build a fence for the chicks not to fall out of the nest. Now Elo and Uno could easily get to the edge but avoid that by instinct. They sense objects in the air at some distance like Madis and enemy birds, so they must be able to realize the ground is deep under the nest. So maybe all this branch moving is only a lesson for the chicks so that they could build a nest for themselves in the next years.
pinkish wrote:
Do you think they are already up to eat on their own?
I think Piret avoid to feed the intestines and organs to the chicks. Uno tried to eat some intestines but he couldn't manage it. These parts are hard to swallow. Piret also ate the bigger parts she ripped off the fish for herself. Today at the morning I saw that Uno grapped some large pieces and was able to swallow. I think it begins with shielding the prey like the LSE to protect it against siblings and parents and in a few days they will learn how to open a living fish.