On 1st November the tracking data moved into the Winter regime of two data points per day at 09.00 and 16.00 GMT with data downloads on a weekly basis. This will continue until 10 March 2015 when tracking will revert to nine data points per day collected every three days. The current change is because we do not expect much movement of the birds when they have settled into their location in W Africa and the latter change is so that we can track the birds on migration back to the UK. Of course it is probably too early for both of our birds to undertake an early return migration but who can tell. One thing for certain is that the joy of nature is its unpredictability and maybe Breagha will make an early return to the UK in 2015. A consequence of the current change to data collection is that it will be difficult to say much about what the birds are doing. Another consequence is that downloads now occur over the weekend and therefore any blog updates will take place on a Monday when Jen is back in the office.
There is still not too much to say about our two Ospreys except they appear to be well and continue to explore their adopted homes in West Africa. Millicent has been moving around an area of only 0.6 sq. km but in the process has covered 4-5 km on some days. She has not shown any consistently favoured spots for roosting in this area.
Breagha has behaved similarly but does not appear to have travelled such distances during the day although of course the birds can travel significant distances in the eight hours between data points and we will be none the wiser.