10. päivä
Tämä kaveri ilmestyi Dyfin pesälle 11.huhtikuuta 2016. Hän on Dyfin 2016 pesinnän ainoa muutolle selvinnyt poikanen, kuten velipuolensa Ceulan 2012. Sen vanhempi sisar Ceri teki ensilentonsa aiemmin, juuri kuin tämä kaveri oli lähtemäsisillään ensilennolleen. Cerille tapahtui onnettomuus ja se putosi t-orrellta kun oli nukkumassa pesän ulkouolella.
Seuraavat päivät olivat täyttä tuskaa, aiemmin ei sellaista oltu koettu Dyfissä. Se kuitenkin selviytyi pesälle ja se näytti toipuvan, mutta vähitellen sen tila meni huonommaksi. Vaikutti siltä, että olisi helppo hakea se pesältä ja viedä lääkäriin, mutta tämä kaveri oli juuri lähtemäisillään lentoon. Jos dyfiläiset menisivt pesälle voisi tämä nuorempi pelästyä ja paeta pesältä lähes lentokykyisenä. Pesää ei häiritty ja Ceri kuoli pesässä tämä kaveri lähti ensilennolle.
Kun veli oli lennolla Ceri poistettiin pesältä ja vietiin lääkärille tutkittavaksi, joka totesi, ettei mitään olisi ollut tehtävissä aiemmin, koska sillä oli vaikeita sisäisiä vammoja. Ceri haudattiin luonnonpuiston alueelle ja se nimettiin Cerin mukaan.
Kun Cerin veli palasi aikuisena, kyyneleet palasivat Dyfin henkilökunnen, mutta tällä kertaa ne olivat ilon kyyneleitä. Se sydäntä särkevä päätös, jonka dyfiläiset tekivät vuonna 2016, turvasi ainakin ainoan kyseisenä vuonna jäljellä olevan linnun mahdollisuudet selviytyä aikuisuuteen. Hänen nimensä on Tegid.
Dyfi Osprey Project
ADVENT DAY 10
This chap popped in to see us on 11th April this year - he is our 2016 offspring and just like his half-brother Ceulan in 2012, the only osprey to survive to migration age that year.
His older sister, Ceri, had fledged before him and just about when he was about to fly the nest, Ceri had an accident and fell off her perch while roosting, the first night she had spent away from the nest.
Then came the most horrible couple of days we've ever endured at DOP.
Ceri managed to fly back to her nest unaided and for a good while it seemed as if she would make a full recovery at first, but as the hours passed she declined.
It seemed as if the easiest thing in the world for us to have done was go and fetch her and take her to a vet to try and save her.
But her brother was on the verge of taking to the air for the first time, we knew that a major disturbance - these things don't take a couple of minutes - would have caused him to jump the nest prematurely and possibly never to be seen again. We've seen it happen at other nests.
That seemingly easy decision we took in 2016 not to intervene quickly became the hardest decision we've ever ta
Ceri continued to decline and died the following day. By that time her brother had fledged and was flying well.
Watching a bird decline, clearly in pain, is the hardest thing you can do in this job. At the time you never really know whether you're doing the right thing, compassion compels you to try and help.
Compassion also compelled us not to.
A horrendous sickening feeling in your stomach and a near sleepless night checking the Live Streaming on your phone in bed was not going to help. Neither, unfortunately, was going to fetch her.
You find yourself mumbling to yourself "it's only a bird, it's only a bird" as it eats you up inside. The pain was immeasurable.
Once her brother was a strong flier and was leaving the nest for long periods of time, we retrieved Ceri's lifeless body and took it to the vet for analysis.
"There was nothing you could have done" they said, X-rays showed she had internal injuries that would not have heeled sufficiently for her to fly again, even with prompt veterinary care.
You would think that kind of information would make you feel better. It didn't, we still lost her.
We buried Ceri on the reserve and built a hide in her name.
When we saw Ceri's brother return as an adult, the tears returned. Only this time they were tears of joy.
That heartbreaking decision we took in 2016 did, at least, safeguard the chances of the sole remaining bird that year surviving to adulthood. Ceri lives on in her brother. His name, is Tegid.
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