Apologies for the title but when we had an intruding bird with the leg ring "HP" landing on the nest I simply couldn't resist. Yes, that is right, yet another intruder. This 3 year old female landed on the camera post just above the nest at 5pm on Friday evening and stayed there for several minutes whilst EJ covered her eggs, mantled her wings and alarm called - the intruder, who was rung on the Black Isle in 2005, didn't hang around for too long before flying off. There was another intruding bird which divebombed EJ on Saturday morning, but it only happened the once and happened so quickly that we couldn't positively identify the bird.
Apart from that things are very much the same, OVS is bringing in fish (not a great deal I hasten to add) and doing his bit on the eggs, our resident goldeneye is happily incubating in her nestbox and the capercaillie are showing well, throw in regular (though infrequent) sightings of the crested tit and you can imagine that the visitors to the Centre are very happy.
Before signing off I'd like to thank the children in Class 2 at Colliers Green Primary School, Kent for their keen interest and support.
The next blog will be posted on Wednesday, unless of course......
If you want to specifically help the Loch Garten Osprey Team 2008, you might consider supporting the RSPB. You can do this online via the RSPB website: http://www.rspb.org.uk/join, if you add the code PR08, your membership will be credited to the Loch Garten team.