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Lounge => The Tavern => Topic started by: George on November 11, 2010, 08:38:01 am

Title: Osprey..
Post by: George on November 11, 2010, 08:38:01 am

I was on holiday in Argyll this year, I was told by a friend that a pair of Ospreys were nesting at Lochaweside, but where, I did'nt know..

So I set out to find them.. I was heading for the south shore of the loch, when I was stopped by a police officer, he told me that the road was closed.. A train was derailed at the Ben Cruachan hollow mountain tearoom, so I had to turn back..

I set off for the Kilchrenan road which led to the north side of the loch..

After a few miles, I thought I spotted a likely looking large nest at the top of a pine tree..

So, I set up my camera and tripod and waited, I did'nt have to wait long, as an Osprey started to circle the nest, then landed on it..

This pix shows it landing on an ajoining dead pine..

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/georgeg_photo2/BIRDS/OSPREY-D_filtered.jpg)

Carrying nesting material..

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/georgeg_photo2/BIRDS/OSPREY-A_filtered.jpg)

Circling above..

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/georgeg_photo2/BIRDS/OSPREY-B_filtered.jpg)

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/georgeg_photo2/BIRDS/OSPREY-DD_filtered.jpg)

On another pine tree.

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/georgeg_photo2/BIRDS/OSPREY-4.jpg)

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/georgeg_photo2/BIRDS/OSPREY-AA_filtered.jpg)

As an aside, this is what I really would have liked to get, a Pine Marten..

Unfortunatly I did'nt see any, but my friend on Lochawesde gets them almost every night, of course, not on the night I was there.. So here is one of Alisons pictures of one of a family of four, begging for marmalade at her window..

Alisons picture..

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/georgeg_photo2/ANIMALS/PIERE.jpg)

George..