Estonian Osprey Nest (Ivo & Iiris) 2019

[Owlie]

Nice life at the nest. Ivo is noticed and he deserves it
I wonder with which sense do the birds recognize each others' gender ...?

[Håkan]

Hallo. Nice to be back.
I got some snapshots of the mating a few minutes ago, but I've forgot how to put them in the forum. Can somebody please remind me.

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[Håkan]

Oh. Helga has got the pictures to for all to see.

[Hellem]

18:11 Female flew away suddenly, someone scared her
18:14 She is back

[Owlie]

18.16
Alarm, she went rapidly to the right. My imagination .. could Irma be there already chasing away her?

She is back in some minutes

[Helga]

Hakan
size your pics down not bigger than 800x600 pixel
place them on a server like directupload.net or so
copy / use the URL=https.// .... adress
copy it to the post a reply form

[Bea]

°°°°

18:11
Someone scared the unringed female off the nest. She went to a branch behind and fluttered there, then took off



For a moment one can see a bird flying in the upper right corner, but too short and far away to identify the shape/species

[Hellem]

18:23 Alarm! She is protecting the nest

[Hyacinth]

18:26 the unringed female is on the nest. She may have been there a while; I just started looking now.

[Owlie]

This female looks a little like Irma with her fluffy "hair". Somehow I get an impression that she is not very young ... It cannot, of course, be Irma, she can not have got rid of both her rings (plastic yes, but not the metal ring).

[Owlie]

She chirps alert and mantles the nest, some one is threatening her from upside ...

[sova]

Good evening

Is that Irma or a new female?


... she has something against me

[Tinchen]

°°°

18:07
She looks a bit funny with the stick going through her tailfeathers

Exactly what I thought when I saw the sequence.

[sova]

she calls

Does she have an injury on her right leg?

[RosaMerle]

This female looks a little like Irma with her fluffy "hair". Somehow I get an impression that she is not very young ... It cannot, of course, be Irma, she can not have got rid of both her rings (plastic yes, but not the metal ring).

Owlie

Exactly my thoughts! She looks like Irma, especially because of the head feathers and because she looks older.

[Polly]

This female looks a little like Irma with her fluffy "hair". Somehow I get an impression that she is not very young ... It cannot, of course, be Irma, she can not have got rid of both her rings (plastic yes, but not the metal ring).

Somebody's got the same thoughts as me.
I also think that she is something in Ivo's age...maybe widowed?

I like to leave such estimates to experts but my gut says so.

I like it a lot.
Unlike Ivo's last bridging until Irma's return last year. She works gently.... . =)

[Bea]

18:48

Three ospreys on the nest!!!!

[Hyacinth]

3-- Yikes!
Mating attempt with the newcomer.

[Bea]

Two unringed females and one Ivo

[Helga]

18:49 THREE OSPREYS!