It is August and that means that the ospreys will soon start to leave if they have not done so already.
The weather in July has been exceptionally dry and warm and this has hopefully led to a bumper crop of young ospreys.
Glaslyn led the way in the fledging stakes as usual with the elder chick fledging on Saturday 6 July at the age of 54 days. Many other fledgings quickly followed mostly on 52 days.
The younger of the two chicks at Loch Garten (Breagh) showed that coming from a fourth egg is no handicap at all provided you do not have three older siblings to bash one about. That is exactly the task faced by two #4 chicks at nests in the USA. The chick at Terrapin Cove did not survive but the feisty #4 at Friends of Island Beach State Park did survive to fledge at the age of 57 days. #4 became so good at getting up front for the fish that some people expressed worries that its bigger siblings might not be getting enough! Thus no doubts that four chicks can be successfully raised.
ChloeB and I visited Tweed Valley, Kielder, Threave Castle, Wigtown and Caerlaverock osprey projects. All very interesting.
At Dyfi we have two very late chicks who are growing up very quickly. The strange thing is that Monty has taken to building a new nest. Whatever is in his mind? I guess we will find out in due course.
So one more month of then ospreys and then they will be largely gone for 2013. The season goes so quickly.
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Mrs T, B&B appears to have deleted her last post as I was replying to her in a friendly and reasonable way. I believe she completely misinterpreted my meaning.
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So Green J is being tracked again. Do people think that she will stay in Spain as she did 13 years ago?
Is it simply tracking or is there something more to it like tracking the whole family?
Hazel b said: So Green J is being tracked again. Do people think that she will stay in Spain as she did 13 years ago? Is it simply tracking or is there something more to it like tracking the whole family?
Maybe Roy had a sponsor request from an individual or syndicate to track Green J - Do you think so. Apparantly there was a similar request last season to HFW.
We already been gifted funding for one of the transmitters – both purchase price and the running cost for the first year , and would be very pleased to hear from anyone or organisation which would like to sponsor one or both of the remaining two transmitters.
You say none of the translocated chicks were tagged so maybe not the 2013 family and am not aware of a UK fledged chick being tagged from that nest.
Will she stay in Spain - probably but only speculating.
Unless conditions have changed so that she does not like her original area anymore I think Green J will stay pretty much in the same area of Spain as she used before
patily said: Unless conditions have changed so that she does not like her original area anymore I think Green J will stay pretty much in the same area of Spain as she used before
Which is almost the same place as where Blue 44 went missing.
Mike B said: Absolutely terrific - what is the name of this marvelous photographer Gotta go to work but hope someone posts a reply for me to see later
Absolutely terrific - what is the name of this marvelous photographer
Gotta go to work but hope someone posts a reply for me to see later
The answer is a lady called Gillian Lloyd and the details are in this link. and there is more on Google
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Oh, thank you so much MIKE - so pleased to know and thank you very much for the links