Dyfi Osprey Project

[Brit]

Four Weeks Old and Monty's Frustrated..
Posted 29-07-2013 four-weeks-old-and-montys-frustrated in This Week by Emyr – MWT

There's a Big Wind coming..

[molly]

July 30

00:04 eating at night

[Malewitsch]

[macdoum]

The cam has been down for part of the day but;

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... =2&theater

[molly]

August 2

evening

[macdoum]

Post from Dyfi FB page;
Who is five weks old today....

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

[Malewitsch]

[Kukelke]

Funny footage of both the kids helping mum and dad to improve the nest. The look of Glesni towards the end of the video, when she scrutinizes the nestoration done by her kids, is priceless.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... =2&theater

[Brit]

Competition: Guess the Chicks Weight
Posted 03-08-2013 competition-guess-the-chicks-weight in This Week by Emyr – MWT

[Malewitsch]

Golden eyes - what a family in welsh summer lights!!!!

[Malewitsch]

Ringing tomorrow morning, thankfully the weather forecast is good. No rain, cloudy and hardly any wind.

We're still working on the Live Streaming - here's what they looked like a couple of hours ago...

from fb

[molly]

August 06

feeding after ringing

[Kukelke]

From the Dyfi Osprey Project facebooksite:

WE HAVE TWO GIRLS!!

Both chicks were ringed this morning and they weighed 1,660g and 1,710g. Very heathy weights, so that's 3,370g combined. Who's won the competition? Both girls now have names also, again following the previous protocol of naming our birds after local rivers.

1R - Cerist (second chick 1,660g)

2R - Clarach (first chick 1710g)

Shortly after we left the nest, Monty brought in a lovely sea trout and Cerist and Clarach fed well. More later..

[Malewitsch]

Thanks Kukelke - lovely photo of the 2 girlies

[macdoum]

Clarach Has applied for a pilots license.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... =2&theater

[Kukelke]

New weekly blog from the Dyfi Osprey Project with all the details on the ringing of Cerist (1R) and Clarach (2R): http://www.dyfiospreyproject.com/blog/2 ... inging-day



It looks like Monty is building a second nest on the camera support:



Is this the osprey's answer to a "man-cave", or rather "man-attic" ?

[macdoum]

Emr calls that a Frustration nest see earlier post and theory at the top of this page.

[Malewitsch]

[Malewitsch]

Here's an image of two Dyfi chicks, both taken when they were six weeks old.

Ceulan (2012) is on the left, Clarach on the right. Clarach's eyes seem to be significantly lighter in colour than Ceulan's. Ceulan saw next to no direct sunlight for his first six weeks of life, Clarach has seen nothing but almost.

Have we stumbled upon a bit of a theory here..? Does the amount of sunlight during the first few weeks of life have an effect on osprey eye colour?

Are Monty's darker eyes a result of lower than average sunlight when he was young? We may never know as we don't know when he was born. But we do know when the only other dark eyed osprey we know of, Henry, was. He hatched on the Black Isle, Scotland in early June, 1998. It would be interesting to find out if June 1998 on the Black Isle had a particularly miserable weather pattern with less than average daily sunlight. Paul Wildlifewriter, can you help?

This could all be coincidence of course and have no scientific connection whatsoever. Hmm..

from fb

[molly]

August 13