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14:31 Ivo landed, is mantling, female followed him
14:33 Mating attempt, Ivo flew to the dead tree, 14:34 female flew away

Bea wrote: April 21st, 2019, 2:32 pm No, and I have already rectangular eyes

Include me too!!!
And I try to understand why she's the last one to come back year after year
Is she wintering in South Africa???

Abigyl wrote: April 21st, 2019, 2:49 pm

Include me too!!!
And I try to understand why she's the last one to come back year after year
Is she wintering in South Africa???

Me too!
And my two classes of nine year olds following here in Spain .
All eyes on the nest

But I am happy Ivo has a mate..for now,
We are all worried for lonely Teo in Latvia ....

If, and I say IF you would like something more of slow-tv there is a nonstop broadcasting with several cameras from a place in Sweden called Junsele, where a lot of moose are about to swim across one of the greatest river. No one have yet crossed but they are in the area and walk around hesitating and come closer and closer to the river. Here is a link to where you can choose live = "direkt" or higlights from earlier days.

https://www.svtplay.se/video/21765114/d ... pr-06-00-1

15:33
Ivo is still nest-working, such a busy sunny day


I especially liked the digging part:

15.57

Female is on the nest. She looks tired.

Ivo works tirelessly to make the nest safe

17:26
Ivo landed in the nest. Big branch, but Ivo knows how to place it.

So, I understand that the other female is no longer here.
Only one female remains, of the two.


17:29 Ivo is off.

Jojo, your 9yr old students are very fortunate to have you as their teacher!


Håkan, thank you for the link. Moose, crossing the river, sounds very interesting.

Irma, we are anxiously awaiting your arrival. We miss your beautiful knowledgeable face and your voice!

17:42

mating



17:49

a osprey on the dead tree.

17:49
IceAge, the mating appeared to be more of an attempt.
The female had other things on her mind.
Are both females still with Ivo?

17:54

Two crows attack the osprey on the dead tree.

04/21/2019 - 5.59 PM
The female had enough of mating and shakes off Ivo.

It seems to me that Ivo is a very smart bird.

He keeps a new female in his nest. Feeds... but he doesn't try to mate actually. He knows how to do it, but he doesn't do it …

So - if he expects to Irma arrives ... but at the same time keeps a close a potential mate.

Ivo does not want such a scenario as Madis and Piret nest were

aita wrote: April 21st, 2019, 7:04 pm
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Ivo does not want such a scenario as Madis and Piret nest were

Ivo does/did "work" with other females before Irma's return, for instance 2017:
viewtopic.php?p=520451#p520451
viewtopic.php?p=541327#p541327

As I have understood, Ivo has also mated successfully with the current female ...

I still wish that Irma returns - her arrival has earlier been as late as 24th April-

Irma's arrivals :

2019 - ?

2018 - 19.4

2017 - 22.4

2016 - 18.4 (Ivo)

2015 - 24.4 (with new hubby J3)

The current female looks like a male (from the breast), but acts like a female ...

History of inhabitants

2013
Adults
Irma (U5) and Ilmar (AF) (former U6)
Osprets
Kaido (DJ), Kenno (DH) and Kaari (DK) died in August

2014
Adults
Irma (U5) and Ilmar (AF)
Osprets
Aino (AR) and Elar (DI)

2015
Adults
Irma (U5) and Joosep (J3)
Osprets
Niina (NN), Thor (NT) and Yolanda (NY)

2016
Adults
Irma (U5) and Ivo (ED)
Osprets
Ivar (RR) a second smaller ospret was blown off from the nest in storm

2017
Adults
Irma (U5) and Ivo (ED)
Osprets
Daisi (DX) and Daimar (DZ)

2018
Adults
Irma (U5) and Ivo (ED)
Osprets
Jaak (XJ), Heli (XH) and Kaja (XK)

That's a very good summarise! Thank you!
Could that be affixed on page 1?

Janne+Ais wrote: April 21st, 2019, 8:34 pm That's a very good summarise! Thank you!
Could that be affixed on page 1?

It is already