Well, that’s April come and gone and still no sign of LS7. We’re still not giving up hope and neither is CJ7 it seems. Her drive to breed has been building all the way through April with constant nest building, egg cup scraping and then last night, she surprised us all by laying an egg at around 3:30am.

Of course, with no male around this will of course be an unfertilised egg, but it just goes to show how happy she is here and specifically on the nest cam.

Over the course of the day we received numerous questions from the public about this occurrence and what does it mean for CJ7? So to answer all those questions and to give you an explanation as to why she’s done this we’ve publish THIS BLOG for you to read which will hopefully answer a lot of those questions for you.

As we role into May, there’s still time for a breeding attempt with May 10^th roughly being the cut off date for any chance of breeding this season and with the weather looking favourable again this weekend, we’ll be glued to the webcam, just like we have been for the last month.

Sightings included 4 Whimbrel in Holes Bay north along with at least 6 Reed Warbler and a Cetti’s Warbler along the northern Holes Bay shoreline. A Cuckoo was getting grief off the wind and a parent Meadow Pipit on Hartland and a Hobby was over Slepe Heath.

CJ7 and her unfertilised egg