New Nest

This morning I visited Foulshaw Moss. It’s another lovely day.

The reserve now has two osprey nests. Last autumn a young male started to build a nest atop a dead tree. It was examined over the winter and found to be unstable, so was reinforced with a dead Scot’s pine driven into the ground. It was very uncertain whether anything further would happen, but late March the male returned, and then a female (her ring identified her as a bird from Fife), and they paired off. They are both very young birds, but now have three eggs (as do the older pair on the reserve). And their nest is a lot closer to observe.

Extra s- I took some photos of dragonflies I could not identify (extra). They were flying low all the time, and when stationary blended in with the vegetation. My ID book is at home, but I think they are male and female white faced darters.

And - a giant ichneumonid wasp. I did consider this as a main image, it has an abstract quality. But I spent so much of the morning looking at the dead tree, that had to be my blip of the day