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With all the panting to keep cool, does EJ get thirsty?  She looks so hot. Come on OVS, let us see you a little more on the nest and give EJ a well deserved break for a couple of hours at least!  I agree with Sixy the tension is becoming unbearable and the watching is so addictive.  Maureen do you get any sleep?

My sixth-grade students and I are watching from our school in New York.  We are all very excited as we await the arrival of the chicks.  Unfortunately, due to time zone differences and our school hours, we have yet to actually see OVS bring a fish....I am eager for my students to see that...we'll keep hoping and watching.  We are all addicted, in fact it is getting hard to teach because they are SO INTO WATCHING DEAR EJ!!!!

Like everyone else, it seems, I'm getting very jumpy. How does EJ survive in such little food? Henry was a far better provider. Maureen, are you a night owl?

Yes Amy, he did bring her something. She has been moving a lot and panting a lot. OVS should be there like Henry...bringing her fish. She is a bird that has layed eggs. That is very hard to do especially with an empty tummy. I have a bird that lays eggs at home so I know!!

EJ looking a bit sleepy and looks to be nodding off, then her head comes up with a start and calls for OVS. Anybody knows where OVS goes in these long spells away from the ever patient EJ? Did Henry come back to Scotland this year, though I would not like him to upset things at Loch Garten, it would be good to know if all is well with him.

has EJ eaten this morning? She is preening now, but I had to go out and missed any feeding, i think.......

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Hope you enjoy the build-up to Sunday 25 May, when the first egg is due to hatch (roughly).

good morning to EJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has ovs been in the nest this morning! I know he sat on the eggs for a while last nisht. Atleast EJ had some time for her self!!!

I've got it now!  I think OVS really wants to be a house husband and let EJ go to work.  He does seem reluctant to leave the eggs when changeover comes and then he fusses about tidying the nest!  I have seen him do this a few times.

EJ came back to the nest this morning about 9.30am so it looks like she had time to feed herself.

EJ is looking quite settled this afternoon.........we have heavy rain north of Inverness, but, she looks dry at the moment.Have I missed any food coming her way? I did eventually have to walk the dogs, now trying to concentrate on paper work as well as watch EJ....what will I be like when the chicks hatch?

I am so grateful for this video and everyone's blogs. My swallows didn't come back and the garden is eerily quiet without them. There seems to be just two pairs in the village this year. Has anyone else had a similar experience? At least the sandmartins are back by the river. If I didn't have this video I should feel quite bereft.

I think we have got OVS all wrong you know, I think he is going to be a good Dad and he seems to be a good mate to EJ. He has been sitting on the nest a lot lately, he is sitting there at the moment and it's a Friday night which is traditionally a lads night out ;-)

I just think he is a very bad fisherman so EJ has to bring home the bacon...err fish I mean. This is a very modern relationship

EJ is back on the nest at 08.38 I don't know how long she was gone for.  I am quite encouraged at the amount of time OVS os spending on the nest, I would like to think that he brings her something each time he arrives even if we don't see it.

I dutifully close my browser when I leave the computer but by the time I get back on the change-over has happened. Very frustrating. Haven't seen OVS bring fish for ages. Nest looks really comfortable, with deep, soft cup and all the grass.

Isn't it a relief when we know she has been fed.  Perhaps we are being a bit harsh on OVS.  He does do his turn on the eggs after all and takes it very seriously.  Now on countdown for the weekend!  Hope we can see them hatch, wouldn't that be great after watching them all this time.  Our babies, Ah!