It's exactly 37 days today since the first egg was laid and we are expecting a chick to emerge from it at any moment. Both adult birds have been very agitated all day and it's clear that something is afoot. When the male brought a sea trout back at around 11:30am this morning both birds had a nibble at it on the nest - which is most peculiar, they usually prefer to retire to a tree before they tuck in. Neither of them want to be away from the nest, even for short amounts of time, as the big moment is imminent. The female, possibly in a frenzy of pre-hatching madness, has been a littl odd today. Not content with eating the sea trout that her mate brought back, she flopped it on top of the eggs and has since been sitting on both trout and eggs! It's not really clear why. The only thing that we can think of is that she's aware that she will have a chick to take care of very soon and wants to be prepared. She will probably try and feed the chick more or less straight away and perhaps she has put that fish aside for its first meal. Hope the chick doesn't take too long to arrive or things could get quite whiffy up there.