OGK looks up to the sky and sees his lady love coming home and he is so happy! He greets her with a lovely skycall - it has been a long 15 days for OGK to be incubating their egg. Welcome home YRK! ♥ YRK affectionately preens her mate and they spend quite a bit of time together strengthening their bond once again. OGK is not ready to get up so YRK walks around the area several times and then comes back to do more allopreening with OGK.
Finally the changeover occurs at 21:44 and YRK is very happy to be able to incubate once again. This is the dummy egg - the rangers will bring back their egg tomorrow Jan 6th and put under YRK. OGK stayed around doing some gardening before he finally departed back out to sea to forage for food. The southerlies winds picked up with cooler air today and that brought YRK in and hopefully a few more parents! Thank you for watching!
Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk
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20 окт 2024