Royal Albatross ~ YRK RETURNS! 💕 Happy Affectionate Preening & Homecoming With OGK! 1.5.22
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- OGK looks up to the sky and sees his lady love coming home and he is so happy! He greets her with a lovely skycall - it has been a long 15 days for OGK to be incubating their egg. Welcome home YRK! ♥ YRK affectionately preens her mate and they spend quite a bit of time together strengthening their bond once again. OGK is not ready to get up so YRK walks around the area several times and then comes back to do more allopreening with OGK.
Finally the changeover occurs at 21:44 and YRK is very happy to be able to incubate once again. This is the dummy egg - the rangers will bring back their egg tomorrow Jan 6th and put under YRK. OGK stayed around doing some gardening before he finally departed back out to sea to forage for food. The southerlies winds picked up with cooler air today and that brought YRK in and hopefully a few more parents! Thank you for watching!
Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk
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"LOVE is in the air....Everywhere I look around.....LOVE is in the air.....Every sight & every sound.....And I don't know if you're an illusion.....Don't know if I see it TRUE.....But you're something I believe in.....And you're there when I reach out for you"
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"Thank You Lady Hawk" (smiles & hug)
GOD BLESSES ALL.
OMGosh he looks so happy - it is amazing how animated he seems. So glad YRK is alright. Such a beautiful pair. 😍👍
He does look so happy and animated ! 😆 Well put 😄, they’re so cute it always makes me happy seeing either of them- but BOTH of them together is always so adorable 🥰🥰🥰
Whew! Thanks for the good news Lady Hawk! YRK was gone so long that I was starting to get worried.
OGK was really happy to see her! Amazing that after more than 2 weeks he wanted affection even more than he wanted food. 🥰
OGK, your take off was perfect. Eat hearty and come home soon.
Happy Day! YRK is home and OGK is so happy to see his lady. The allopreening is so sweet. So sweet how bonded they are. Thank you, Lady Hawk.
Aww, so glad she's ok, 15 days is a long time to be sitting on the nest, but OGK did it faithfully, trusting that his mate would eventually be back.
w0w! so cute and adorable pair thanks for sharing
Hopefully after OGK visits a fast food squid restaurant - he's got to be famished - he has time to pick up a ⌚ for his lady love. She seems to have a propensity for losing track of time.
So sweet how they allopreened. How dare that other bird interrupt their reunion.
❤️❤️soulmates❤️❤️
So Happy, saw her incomming live & WHAT a Joy for OGK❤. THIS is pure Love. Albatross true Love❤Fantastic Video, thank you dear LH.🦅😘 .3 Weeks till 🐣💖
Lovely and adorable 🌹🌹💕💕💓💓
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Some reason they remind me of dolphins the way they act and look.
Awww..was waiting to see this..our true blue OGK was overjoyed to see his honeypie's return!! What excited happy skycalls & what a tender reunion!! 💞 Ty sooo much for this video Lady Hawk!! Ain't love grand? Oh Yessirree!! Saving this one!! 💖💕
I think all of us were just as excited to see YRK come home - just like OGK was!!!!! You are very welcome my friend - I will be watching this again and again too!
I don't know who's happier - me or OGK or YRK. 😀😀😀♥️♥️♥️ If that were a human dad, he'd be complaining " Now, wifey . I'm off right away! I'm done with my arse sitting down on the egg for the whole fifteen days. Fifteen days, you see! Bye" (smug face). But look at OGK, still showing no signs of boredom or exhaustion. We gotta learn so many things from them. 🙃
I wonder who that 3rd albie was who crashed the romantic reunion? Luckily he/she got the hint and didn't hang around very long.. I'm happy they spent quite a long time together before OGK left. They are such a beautiful couple!
Welcome home YRK relieved to see you back and safe travels OGK the squid buffet awaits you
Decent landing in that wind. They were just yakking it up. Scratch my head right there......aahhhh. 😃
Who is that third bird??
The visitor was so starved for social interaction he crashed their reunion. It's very sweet how social these birds are, they spend so much time at sea when they get on land they just want attention! It's adorable
Wow, 21 min and he finally gives up the throne ♥️ then begins his grass cutting ritual ♥️ She greets her precious baby and takes her place of love ♥️ it doesn't get much better than this... TY Lady Hawk (again) 😆
LOL OGK says, "You think a few kisses are gonna make up for being away this long? I'll get off this egg when I'm darn good and ready!" ;)
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EXACTLY!!😂😂
Thank God!!! The return of YRK👏👏👏👏👍🙏 LH Go eat OGK✌️🥰
GE Lady Hawk! I finally got a chance to see this whole reunion video in it's 25min entirety. It never ceases to amaze me how openly loving and affectionate they are with each other. Both YRK and OGK spent so long reestablishing their bond. The visitor that popped on with the red band wanted in on the reunion too lol. I'm so glad this was a smooth transition for OGK to get up and be able to go off and forage again which we know he needed to eat after those 15days! At least he had been hydrated 💦. When the changeover occurs at the 21:44 it appears YRK was relieved to get back on her egg and settles in to incubate (the dummy egg at this time) almost immediately💞. Love the sweeping take off at the end of OGK! Great end scap and cover! Thanks LH! SEDs💜🌙🌚
Then~the stranger shows up 😂 Clackity clack Clackity clack!! Bye bye! 🥰
That’s. one happy Dad. I’m so glad Mum is safe and home with her family 💕🥚🇦🇺
Very glad for this return, that's how I feel. God heard our prayers.
Thank you Lady Hawk for keeping us posted, for everything...
I hope the other parents who are at sea arrive very soon.🙏
Какая радость. Мы счастливы, что YRK благополучно вернулась.
hey you're back! everything's good, egg is fine and it's totally the real and original egg, nobody came and took it or nothing. anywho I'm out to the fish buffet
Thank you so much for this beautiful reunion, Lady Hawk!
God bless OGK and YRK-and their egg!
God bless you and us all, Milady!
Carolyn, happy new year to you and yours. It is good to see you. God bless you in 2022. Much love.
At least the party crasher left! How RUDE…! LOL
Awww so glad YRK is ok! It’s so cute seeing them preening each other, I’m sure OGK is incredibly happy! As others have said, he sure looks happy! 🥰🥰🥰 thank you for sharing Lady Hawk! This video made my day, as well as e19 toppling over before 😆.
Hi CE - I love their preening sessions and those happy skycalls!!!!! ♥♥ It made my day too -I am glad YRK is now back on her egg and OGK can go EAT!!! TC
@@ladyhawk yes that’s true I forgot to mention the skycalls!! They were filled with joy 🥰😊, and yeah for sure let’s hope OGK is filling up right now 🥰
@@CenturianEagle Yes those skycalls were amazing and were so full of joy at their reunion!! Who says animals and birds don't have emotions? ♥♥ I hope OGK is filling up too!
OMG, I can't adequately eben begin to express my relief, I confess to loving this pair above all others. Every passing day YRK has been missing I felt fear and hope grappling for my attention.
Welcome home dear YRK, I missed you desperately, seeing you home with OGK lifts the heaviness of my tread, your return brings back the lightness of step into my gait and spirit.
With gratude and hugs, thank you Ladyhawk, the news broke through the fear trembling in me so I can again breathe deeply and smile free of the dread she had been injured and couldn't return.
She's home! Just in time!And sweet OGK is thrilled to see his beloved mate! 🤩💖💝❤👏🤲
This is downright poetic, Mel. Beautifully expressed!
Well put! It’s true, these birds are so special it’s stressful wondering if something has happened to them, they’re such sweet and pure birds that it would be beyond devastating if one of the parents didn’t return. It’s hard not to get extremely worried for them when one of them is even just a little late ya know? So glad they’re all well! I joke the other parents returned safely too. Btw it won’t be long now before there’s a little baby tross! It’s only sinking in now that there’s going to be an adorable tross’let cheeping from under YRK or OGK’s belly 😆🥰🥰
@@CenturianEagle "tross'let" -- Love that term!
How adorable..it seems like she looked up and recognized it was him flying overhead.
Opposite. Male was incubating while the female had been away for 15 days. But YES, absolutely adorable how he welcomed her home.
Oh dear!! It's so cute and sweet this session of kisses and caresses on the neck and head (allopreens) between OGK and YRK. They always melt my heart when they affectionately caress each other, tightening their couple bonds. Thank you so much for this sweet video, Lady Hawk.😍💕💕
I love that even after all of that time, he still didn’t want to leave the egg. ☺️
I know, right?!
YRK was waiting patiently for OGK to change over. How sweet😍💚. Nice landing Mama YRK😁
0:11 OGK makes sound and puts beak into the air. I wonder if he already saw that his mate returned? (0:49)
Absolutely! This is the first thing Lady Hawk wrote in the description under the video: _OGK looks up to the sky and sees his lady love coming home and he is so happy! He greets her with a lovely skycall..._
He definitely did. She was probably hovering above waiting for the wind to help her land.
Thanks 🙏 she’s back it’s adorable and beautiful how’s the albatross 💕💕🌹🌹♥️love each and other lovely and marvelous 💕💓💕
Such a great pair & parents! They don't doubt each other. They always return! So happy.
Wonderful to see this ❤️❤️
My favorite time is coming. The baby with its little peeps. It's like the sound of bells in heaven.
OGK ❤ YRK
21:45 Egg switch. After OGK left the nest he immediately starts to pass gras to the nest.
So glad she's back I watch this nest alot
Adorable 🥰 ❤️
YEEAAHHH MOMMY HOME !!!
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TY again LH!! 👍👍👍
Kisses hugs and love 💕💕💓💓🌹🌹🌹
OMGoodness, this is one of the most precious things I've ever seen. So very glad YRK is ok ♥️ He knew she was coming!. He sky called before she was even insight ♥️♥️♥️ ohhh the precious reunion ♥️ I'm melting! Thank you Lady Hawk!!! 💝 💝💝💐
do they put GPS monitors on them to track their movement?
Such wonderful news. These birds are so sweet.
So OGK went without food for 15 days?🌹
This is a keeper video to watch❣️ The allopreening in itself (even with the nuisance interloper!) is pretty dreamy🤗 Undeniable love> pure and simple♥️♥️‼️
Hi Kathleen yes OGK sat incubating the egg 24/7 for the past 15 days until YRK came back to relieve him of his duties. This is just one example of how dedicated a parent OGK is and how much they depend on one another to raise a chick! I don't know if you ever watched my coverage of OGK returning injured back in 2020 when he was raising Pippa Atawhai. He was gone for a month and then he just showed up like this. It will tug at your heartstrings seeing his commitment to return to feed his chick despite his pain and injuries to his leg. He also has blood on his bill which I zoomed in on back when this happened and it appeared to me to be a hook injury. I believe that OGK was caught in long line fishing and was hooked and the line was wrapped around his leg and he somehow was able to free himself (or the people in the boat freed him). He was very lucky. With the risks of being bycatch and getting tangled in long line fishing nets. I fear that may have happened again to him. I pray that we will see him once again! ua-cam.com/video/QC8PShnEysQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=LadyHawk
She could have brought a goodie bag. Great that she's home
We are very happy, that YRK IS BACK💖💖❤️❤️❤️💖💖💖💖❤️❤️☯️
So glad she is back😊
Always so happy to see one another. Humans could learn from these two.
4:26 who is this?
It's about time she came back I was beginning to worry something bad had happened to her! But what a good daddy he is, he never left his baby😁
Amo os albatrozes.Lindos demais.Que amores.❤️
Who is the other Toroa?
ROY: Red/Orange/Yellow, maybe?
I can't quite make out the colored bands in the grass.
So happy she’s home! And he was so excited to see her! Amazing birds.
I just LOVE how she goes to preening him. 🥰
Wonder who the visitor is at 5:00?
jsem šťastná, že jsou oba v pořádku a zase spolu, že se YRK v pořádku vrátila
Very very interesting bird... amazing how they were preening... its seemed that was love
to je taková krása, jak se k sobě mají
Wait a minute....who was that 3rd one?
To je krása 🤗
When you change the dummy egg?
Are these "endangered birds"?
Yes. Endangered/ vulnerable. The conservation that supplies the cam and the overseeing of this site are working their hardest to make sure these guys don't disappear. I believe (could be wrong) this is their only nesting site in the world.
Is their egg viable that was exchanged??
Hi. He’s been sitting on a dummy egg, so I’m confident it’s not a viable one. The egg that belongs to YRK and OGK is viable and being kept safe in an incubator right now.
And why is it being kept safe, have they had to do this before?
@@barbarapeterson9799 they do it every year. It ensures a safe hatch. These birds are endangered and the conservationists are doing their best to make sure they don't disappear...that Includes protecting the eggs and making sure they hatch.
After 15 days devoutly fulfilling his duties of incubating his precious egg, OGK spread his majestic wings and flew beautifully. (25:22) Oh sweet selfless love!!!! Finally, our loving OGK went to feed at sea. 😍💕❤💕✌
Why is there a dummy egg in the nest?
To make sure it is protected and continue to develop. They will return the egg tomorrow so she can incubate it. He was on the nest for 15 days while she foraged out to sea.
YRK has been gone for 15 days so just encase OGK was forced to leave the real egg was put in a incubator
@@Greg414 oh ok I thought something had happen to the egg..
@@Greg414 What would happen with the egg if the one of the parents would not return?
@@luudest I think they would keep the egg in the incubator till hatch then I'm not sure what happens after that
Yeah. Finally the wind bought YRK home. You can tell they love each other.