Well the beginning of September usually marks the end of the osprey season. This year we still have two chicks at Dyfi who may well be here for another month. What two magnificent chicks they are.
Cerist provided drama just after fledging by going missing for 53 hours. I had the good fortune to be right there in the Dyfi Visitor Centre when she returned.
Also there is the vexed question of Monty's second nest and what will happen to it over the winter? My view is that given the chance he would use it in the spring.
The Loch Garten season came to a quiet end with the whole family leaving over the space of a few days and Oighrig and Breagh are now in Spain and France respectively.
We also had news of a chick from a four chick nest in Sutherland dropping in at Dyfi. Apparently there have been two four chick nests this year. So it has been a good year for ospreys which is not the same for other raptors as they have had a poor season.
We also had news of the translocation of 12 Scottish ospreys to northern Spain.
Anyway it is now down to the long wait until our feathered friends return in 2014.
Tiger Signature
Golly, thank you so much for flagging this programme up TIGER. I see it's an hour long so, having had a taster , I am going to save it for later today when I can just enjoy it. Maybe even, with a glass of red wine when I get home from from work this evening. What a gem !!!!!!!
I saw it the first time round a few years back and it was a treat to be able to watch again yesterday.
Made even more enjoyable having followed Rob Bierregaard's tracking project over the years.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
jsb said: Is "continental" France the same as mainland France? Yes, but 'continental' is not a notion used by the French normally. Here is an explanation. Maybe the previous estimate has changed to one of of 36 pairs (excluding Corsica) ......I would have thought slightly higher, but the figure I saw may have included Corsica. There are parts of France that do not seem to be counted in the LPO statistics and these parts may well contain more ospreys. I have suspected that there are areas, where lack of publicity, has been deemed the best course of action. Britanny is one area, where you hear almost nothing. P.S. I had a few days away & am a bit late coming in with this. [/quote] You may be right JSB but I expect that if they did have nesting Ospreys elsewhere they would include them in the number count without saying where they were. I had a look on the LPO raptor site & THIS is what they had to say about the state of Ospreys in France. It makes quite interesting reading, especially some of the stats. Can anyone do an English translation? Best wishes Hazel in Southwest France
Is "continental" France the same as mainland France?
Yes, but 'continental' is not a notion used by the French normally. Here is an explanation.
Maybe the previous estimate has changed to one of of 36 pairs (excluding Corsica) ......I would have thought slightly higher, but the figure I saw may have included Corsica. There are parts of France that do not seem to be counted in the LPO statistics and these parts may well contain more ospreys. I have suspected that there are areas, where lack of publicity, has been deemed the best course of action. Britanny is one area, where you hear almost nothing.
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You may be right JSB but I expect that if they did have nesting Ospreys elsewhere they would include them in the number count without saying where they were. I had a look on the LPO raptor site & THIS is what they had to say about the state of Ospreys in France. It makes quite interesting reading, especially some of the stats. Can anyone do an English translation?
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Here you are. Translation.
Birdies LG DU update.
Starting a new thread at Osprey Chat Thread for October 2013