This is the new thread for posting reports of osprey sightings, whether on the internet, in the press or in real life.
For the benefit of any new or less frequent viewers, it might be helpful if the first person to refer to a regular online source of information, for example Faune-Aquitaine, provided a link and a brief explanation of what the site is about.
Let the migration season commence!
NIce one jsb.
Here is a sighting in a strange place:
26/03 10:25 OUTER HEBRIDES : Osprey, South Uist [S]one flew over The Range yesterday (25/03)
maybe it is the REAL Tracy Island.....secret or what! Rockets and all!
http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/SouthUistMissileRange
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Thanks jsb. I will have to send my "osprey" drone to check it out.
Meanwhile North Wales seem to be a hotspot at the moment:
26/03 11:52 CONWY : Osprey, Llandudno [S]one over Marl Woods early morning (09:15)
This one is heading south?
26/03 13:16 DEVON : Osprey, Seaton Marshes [S]one flew south early afternoon; also Willow Warbler today (12:30)
26/03 13:54 STAFFORDSHIRE : Osprey, Park Hall CP [S]one flew southwest early afternoon (13:25)
26/03 14:01 NORTHUMBERLAND : Osprey, Sweethope Lough [S]one flew north early afternoon (13:50)
There is a bird on the nest at 2.08pm, white ring, cannot see the letters though.
White ring, on right leg, black writing, female for sure, from the plumage and the nest scraping and tidying the nest, stopping to look round all the time.
She has just flown off at 2.36pm. As . she stretched the ring marks were visible, but unfortunately illegible. I was ready to take a screen shot but not clear.