This is a new thread to follow the travels of these three young ospreys from the Loch Garten nest.
Oighrig
This male juvenile is the elder of the 2013 brood, hatched on 25th May and fledged on 16th July.
Oighrig’s ring is Blue/white CF5
Breagha
Also male, the younger of the 2013 brood, hatched 28th May and fledged on 19th July.
Breagha’s ring is Blue/white CF4.
LG blog on the ringing and tagging of Oighrig & Breagha
Caledonia
Hatched on 16th May 2012, fledged on 14th July and left Loch Garten on 19th August.
The travels of Caledonia and her sister Alba were first followed in this thread, now closed. Caledonia is the first juvenile osprey tracked from Loch Garten to settle in Europe; she has been living on the northern outskirts of Seville for nearly a year now.
Caledonia’s ring is Blue/White AA1, reading downwards. LG blog on the ringing and tagging of Caledonia & Alba.
Maybe a research student could get a grant from the EU for it, they give money for some pretty weird projects at times.
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
They pay lots of money to some very weird MEP's!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Oighrig at the Somone National Park and Breagh is still at Lac de Tetine. Caledonia as before.
Thank you ALAN :-)
I must confess I'm useless with Google Earth, but according to me Breagha's points for the 12th and 13th are exactly the same and there is no point for the 14th, which there is for Oighrig. Is this significant?
EDIT - well, I've taken out the points and put them back in again and am not getting the same result, phew! To compensate for my false alarm:
This man could have seen Breagha :o
But on the return journey it looks like a woman:
And is this the very tree?!
But I'd still like to know why no point for the 14th :-)
IMAGICAT
scylla said:But I'd still like to know why no point for the 14th
Hi Scylla: If you imagine the sat-pack on the bird stores the data.......then it broadcasts a signal 'Hello, hello, hello....' as per the schedule the satellite passes and says 'What have you got'....then the data goes up to the satellite. Because the birds are in different locations the schedule picks up the data on the satellite pass, but the timing causes the data not to match, one bird may store data just after the satellite pass and another may store the data just before a pass. Possibly the satellite download to the Argos system causes timing factors to have their effect also.
The is pure conjecture on my part, but I bet the technical explanation is along these lines. :o)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Thank you for the updates. Oighrig is in a good place hopefully.
Chocoholix - you wrote 'If you take Leri, Einion and Dulas from Dyfi in 2011, there was no doubt about the same paternity but their migration patterns and end destinations were not identical. '
No, but it was striking how all 3 turned sharply West at the same latitude. In case of one of the boys this took him way out to sea. Fortunately he was able to override his internal Sat Nav and return to the coast.
My suspicion is that there is an inherited component in the choice of route but that it will be affected by the winds and weather encountered. As siblings each inherit half of each parent's genes you would expect to see some pairs with similar behaviour (LDOPs 11 & 12 settled close together) and some which are very different like Alba and Caledonia (who may be half-sisters).
Hilary J
New LG Blog. Up to the 14th.
Thank you for the data collection info, JSB - I won't fret about the odd day in future :-)
From the blog:
"Caledonia is still around her favourite Rio Guadalquivir haunt N of Seville and has made a few short trips. Breagha is still in the Loire and travelling around the area between the Loire and Vienne rivers using Lac Tetine as a base. Oighrig has moved a little further S in Senegal and on 17 September was near a small town called Joal Fadriout."