TWEED VALLEY, SCOTLAND~2010

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

Please begin your 2010 posts here.

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

The cam is back on line, and two on the nest :eggdance:

It must be foggy there today :roll:

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

The cam or the weather is much clearer today :grin:

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Beth · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:12 pm

Info from the Tweed blog * Our First Egg!

The strong winds have gone, most of the snow has melted too, and our pair are back and have given us an Easter egg treat! They only arrived in the Tweed Valley on the 21st March and have already laid an egg.

Diane, the Osprey Information Officer, has the story:

"The ospreys had a bit of a battering with the recent bad weather but they've come back to a sturdy nest - thanks to the Forestry Commission Scotland and RSPB rangers - and things are looking promising.

"We think the first egg was laid yesterday [5th April] as that is when our volunteers spotted it for the first time. The female is taking a real interest in the egg, rolling it around and getting it into the best position for incubation. This is all good news and we just need to keep our fingers crossed now that everything falls into place and we get more eggs."

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

BETH, thanks for the update!!!

I wish they had a pic of the egg :roll:

Nest cap from this morning...I didn't have time to post :oops:

Maybe that's the egg under the tail of osprey on the left??? Time and date is on the pic. Ospreys do cover their eggs with nesting material, little sneaks :lol:

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

This pic is from early this morning, I watched for awhile and didn't see an egg, or incubation???

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Beth · **Posted:** Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:13 am

Thursday, 8 April 2010
First egg is lost - but looks like another's been laid...

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

They are now reporting 3 eggs. :grin:

the last one laid 4/15 :eastergirl:

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

Tweed's first egg 4/6 (they reported lost) would be 35 days old today. The second egg they reported was 4/8...then a third egg..date???, forth egg 4/15.

Time will tell, VERY interesting :think

LINK TO THE TWEED BLOG

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
First chick hatched

The first of the osprey chicks has hatched this morning. A tiny little head has been spotted in the nest when the female bird stood up. We are delighted and believe the osprey chick is the first to hatch in the UK this season. The female continues to incubate the other two eggs and so over the next few days we should see the arrival of the siblings.

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

THE SECOND CHICK HATCHED YESTERDAY 5/19 :eggdance:

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

The oldest chick is two weeks today :openrose:

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

The oldest nestling is 45 days old today :grin:

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

One of the nestlings has fledged. :smile:

the blog doesn't give an exact date, but it was earlier than expected, so she couldn't be ringed on 7/5. They have pics of the ringing and updates on their blog.

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 am **Posts:** 2586

The second nestling fledged on 7/10 :smilesun:

Posted on the site blog :thumbup

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