Ajeta wrote: ↑May 8th, 2021, 6:17 pm You're joking here, balistar, are you? Otherwise I must rush to Mr C's defense: When there are chicks on the nest (soon), the time for mating surely is gone. Mr C would have seemed frivolous had he been seen seeking his own pleasure instead of taking on the responsibility for the little ones. So it was not lack of daring, I'd say, but reliability.
Sonchik wrote: ↑May 8th, 2021, 6:20 pm I haven't seen it yet, but it's an interesting twist. For me, this suggests that the Golden Boy and the Silver Boy have different hormones at work at the moment. Golden Boy made no attempt to mate. He had this period in his nest. He already has the stage of "taking care of the offspring". That's how I see it. The Milda, too, has long since passed the mating stage. The silver boy was clearly lonely, since he still had a good testosterone level. Is that why he's so pugnacious?
You (all three) are right, of course, Mr C's primary behavior was the taking care of offsprings and not what precedes this stage. That's why i'm surely taking back what i said that Mr L dares more. What Mr C did was marvellous and i definitely don't want to belittle it. You know i liked him a lot, and there was no way he was a coward, he definitely proved that to us
I was just so fascinated (and probably a little overwhelmed) today when Mr L only dodged Milda's pecks with his head, but didn't even do one step back. He raised his head and looked intently at Milda with his head held high. That was pretty impressive. Then he calmly resumed his nestwork and Milda went up to the top branch. Honestly i wasn't even 100% certain, if it was a mating attempt at all, here i relied on ame and her many years of experience.
If you would have asked me if e.g. Harriet (from the SWFL-bald eagle nest) wanted to mate and if M (her mate) was in the mood or not i would have been able to tell, because them i have watched very closely since a few years.