Tug of warDyfi Osprey Project
Here's another one of those amazing videos, this one taken yesterday afternoon.
This is what happens when you have two hungry daughters but give them just one dinner to share.
Calm down ladies..
I didn't know this. I was always convinced that there was an element of teaching by the parents, mainly the male, but that's obviously not the case at all. So when there's no more free fish and the chicks go hungry their genes kick in and they'll start to fish themselves.Cerist, along with her sister, will stay on the Dyfi for another month or so until the free food finally comes to an end. She will almost certainly not catch her own fish however during the next month, neither will she be 'taught' how to fish by either parent. She has all the fishing skills she will ever need in her life, safely embedded in her genes. She just doesn't know it yet.
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Cerist does her own thing.
Dyfi Osprey Project
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All Grown Up
Bore da - DAY 59
Here's a short video of Cerist taken yesterday evening - eight weeks exactly after she finally broke free of her egg shell.
Her 2½ day Bank Holiday vacation seems to have done her no harm and despite only fledging just five days earlier, she is now a frequent flier.
She now has the ability to deal with her own food and even her voice has broke. She is now capable of all the vocalisations of her parents that she's heard so much of over the last two months.
Cerist, along with her sister, will stay on the Dyfi for another month or so until the free food finally comes to an end. She will almost certainly not catch her own fish however during the next month, neither will she be 'taught' how to fish by either parent. She has all the fishing skills she will ever need in her life, safely embedded in her genes. She just doesn't know it yet.
WOW - Who was it this morning that mentioned Scottish juvenile ospreys moving south and could land on the Dyfi nest?
Do ospreys read Facebook?
There's a Scottish juvenile on Monty's upper nest right now - Ringed Blue CF3. Will try and find out where she is from....
Just spoken to Roy Dennis in Scotland.
He ringed this chick on July 5th this year himself in a nest in Sutherland, right in the north east of Scotland.
She was the biggest of FOUR chicks!!
It is extremely rare for ospreys to have four eggs and four chicks. Let's hope she's catching her own fish by now and that she makes it down to Africa safely.
Big Sis, Little Sis
Bore da- DAY 62
Look at these beauties...
Bore day - DAY 63
It's Clarach's birthday today - she's exactly nine weeks old. She's also been flying for the last 12 days.
Quite an impressive change in nine weeks.
