First egg laid this morning
As the CCTV system came on at the centre this morning the female was sitting tight on the nest. Was she on the first egg? Emma watched patiently and at 10.20am she saw the female stand up and sure enough there was the first egg of the season in the cup of the nest. AW came in with a fish for his mate just after 12 noon and she flew off to eat it and he took over the incubation duties. She cam back half an hour later and gave him back the half eaten fish and took her place on the nest as he flew off to finish it.
Emma had calculated that today would be the day as it is exactly 9 days since the first successful mating attempts were seen on the nest. It is great to have such an osprey expert on the staff here at Caerlaverock.
