I have been trying to tell if there is a new scrape in the Radisson nestbox and after much combing through the recordings, I can say that there is and that from what I can tell (examining changes in pebble patterns), the scrape was initially made the night of May 29/30 and that I believe it has been tweaked as late ad May 3rd. And the culprits are, I belive, Joli and Cowboy. Does that mean they are going to nest there? Don't think so, Ivy appears to be defending the nestbox at night pretty well - on May 1st he just velcroed himself to the box around two am despite another falcon trying to knock him off! No visitations to the nestbox over the last couple of nights but one visit to the end of the nestledge where that cam is set up. Can I be sure of any of the identities, of course not, oh-dark-thirty and all that
but Ivy and Princess are the only ones who have a vested interested in keeping other birds out of the nestbox and the "defender" I've been watching looks too small to be Princess, but whether or not she has been helping Ivy defend, I can't say, that appears to be taking place off-camera.
Like we need more drama here ...