Recently Tiger has been a bit more assertive than usual when anyone goes near. And Lily, the female hasn't been seen for a day or so. So we decided we had better investigate.
We had a hunt in the vegetation - where she sat on some eggs earlier in the year
And we saw her - burie deep in the vegetation
We have glimpsed a pile of eggs - no idea how many though. Its a bit unusual for them to be sitting at this time of the year. And very young poults in October might struggle to survive , given the bad weather at that time of the year.
We have discussed trying to remove some eggs and putting them in an incubator , but have decided against it . And if in the process of retrieving the eggs we scare her off the nest completely we could end up having to incubate who knows how many. And then end up rearing the poults.
So we leave things as they are , and see what emerges in a months' time
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