Friday 16 April 2010

Osprey Update

There is some good news regarding the Ospreys in Cumbria. The birds are mating and it looks as though the female is being a bit of tease. Initiating mating but biting the male when he tries, they are mating. At this point, no eggs have been produced, but that could change in days. With any luck there will be three, as there were last year. Unlike last year, lets hope she sits on the first egg. She failed to start sitting until the second was laid.

1 comment:

tree ocean said...

I am uncertain about Ospreys, but generally birds lay a clutch and then begin sitting, so they hatch at more or less the same time. I am speaking particularly of chickens, who can hatch out a dozen. Birds of prey may be different where they sit fewer eggs...