As several of you have already noticed, the third chick hatched overnight. Just as we were beginning to wonder whether it would hatch at all, the chick decided to make a grand entrance. To celebrate, Samson brought in what, for him, was a small whale so the two chicks got well fed. The third chick doesn’t need feeding yet as it can survive on the yolk sac within it but we should see him stretching up and begging once it gets over the trauma of hatching.
I’ll write about what that means for the family and the next stages in a little more depth later but, in the meantime enjoy watching Augusta with her first brood of 3 chicks.
Can I also quickly apologise to those who wrote comments on the last 2 posts. For some reason, WordPress hung onto them and didn’t send me emails telling me they were there and then just sent them all yesterday. I do like reading them, so please keep them coming.
Border Ospreys 
Hi Rosie, not been able to access the webcam today Sat the 6th – hope all is ok xx
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Should be sorted now. We will be reverting to the zoomed out option once the chicks get a little bigger.
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Thanks Rosie, back on now, glad that everything is ok
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Great news Rosie. Hope the weather stays fine and the chicks all thrive.
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What wonderful news Rosie. Thank you for your Blog and photos. Congratulations on your full nursery Augusta and Samson
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Have enjoyed reading your blogs for several years Rosie, was so happy to see #3 early this morning and the whale from Samson
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It was great to see them all this morning Thanks Rosie
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