In just over four hours time (5:04 am) it will be the summer solstice. A real pivotal point in the year. From today forward the days will grow shorter and we know what that means. Enjoy the ospreys while we can because it will be a long wait until they return.
Tiger Signature
Hazel b said: Loch Garten Ospreys starting in 4 minutes here
Loch Garten Ospreys starting in 4 minutes here
Am just starting to listen to it now. A concert is finishing... OK, off we go :-)
IMAGICAT
AWWWWW!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
You can hear EJ calling in the background so she must be on the dead tree.
Hi, Lmac! When I spoke to Jen a few weeks ago she said they were definitely being tagged - at least, she'd heard nobody saying they wouldn't be.
Thanks Clare, I must go back at some point and read the post .
EJ is back and chicks not best pleased with getting disturbed
EJ has returned.
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Back with a stick:
This is what the LG said in a November blog. Glad their review did the trick although always very sad when you get attached to following them and the transmission stops on one of the birds. They posted this the month after Alba stopped transmitting.
"In an earlier blog I alluded to us undertaking a review of the osprey tracking project, and this seems to have caused some debate and speculation. Just to be clear, this is a review of an aspect of our work at Abernethy, like any other annual re-visit of all aspects of the work programme.
Best practices & procedures are reviewed, progress with habitat management projects are reviewed in the light of results achieved and at Loch Garten for example, we are also reviewing our camera systems and options for next season, reviewing the nest microphone system (to try and eliminate that horrendous buzzing sound), reviewing staffing arrangements for next season, our retail operation is under review and of course budgets and allocation of resources are regularly reviewed too, and we have reviewed tagging every year since we started. You name it, everything is subject to periodic review. We review our Management Plan, our raison d’etre, covering everything we do, every 5 years – and in the intervening period, review progress against the Plan annually. We see review of all projects as an essential aspect of determining their effectiveness, and for identifying what we may need to do differently. If we weren’t doing so, we’d not be doing our jobs properly"
Thanks for finding that, Lmac.
Good evening, Buggy!
Have we been bugged,