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Hi Elle,

Just had a look but Lassie has now settled down and its impossible to see anything at present - It's almost a permanent close watch if we want to see chick No 1 hatch live!

Rain forecast for this afternoon, temps still reasonable but without much sun it feels less warm.

Are you keeping busy?

Hello, Pigale!
Have a look at today's blog - there are some photos posted up there.
I have kept checking in , not wanting to miss the hatching , but I shall be going out later - it is bound to happen whilst I am away!
Yes, I have rather a busy week. It started off relatively quietly but is escalating in hecticness!!

According to the blog, the first chick hatched out at 3.18 this afternoon!
There are photos up on the website . I can see the empty egg but not the chick......

I've just seen the tiny chick as Lassie stood up before resettling down;

Hi Elle, Doglet and everyone,

The second osprey chick had started cracking its shell - it might take him a few hours to break out the shell - apparently 12 hours for chick number 1 - seems like hard work for such a small bird!

Elle, Laddie has brought in a salmon (I think) and I watched Lassie feeding herself and her tiny chatty little chick - simply marvellous !

I don't think it would have been a salmon, pigale - wrong time of year (I think!) Trout, perhaps?

Salmon come up our rivers in October/November to spawn; they then die, so wouldn't still be around. (However I stand to be corrected.)

Hi, Pigale!
My timing is abysmal! I have been checking regularly since I came in about teatime.....nothing was happening whenever I looked!
I am so sorry and disappointed to have missed that!
The up- to- date photos on the blog are good!

Chris, I would say that you are very probably right ! All I know for sure is that the flesh reddish, but perhaps that applies to many types of fish; it was rather big though, well it appeared so to me who likes going fishing along our local river and canal - apart from carps, there are no big fish there.

Just had a really good look at the chick, and it being fed. I wonder why the old shell hasn't been removed by the parents?