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.
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Unknown said: Tiger Ah but the main body of the article - though by Yorkshire artist Robert Fuller - is about a series of 6 sessions at Rothiemurchus fish farm, where Red 8T is known for "ruling the roost". I think the photo is just a stock photo of an osprey.
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Ah but the main body of the article - though by Yorkshire artist Robert Fuller - is about a series of 6 sessions at Rothiemurchus fish farm, where Red 8T is known for "ruling the roost". I think the photo is just a stock photo of an osprey.
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I still find it a very confusing article.
If Tiger is confused, what hope do the rest of us have??? Will investigate later: back to the grindstone (scanner) now :- )
I read it as Robert Fuller, a Yorkshire artist, heading to the Rothiemurchus Fish Farm to photograph osprey (although he does say that if one wanted to see osprey in Yorkshire, now was a good time as they journey south). What he writes tallies with what RD wrote a week or so ago
"Still being seen at the Rothiemurchus fishery SEPTEMBER 3, 2013 Red 8T has had a successful summer rearing two young – he is still fishing for them – and is regularly at the fishery where he is the dominant male. Often chasing off other males which annoys the photographers waiting for good fishing shots!"
But if it is really correct in referring to Red A8, then that's another for Sue C's list!
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If you note the description of the hides and the 'Lookout man' I think it has to be the fish farm and I agree that's what he says he was going north for.
Birdies LG DU update.
As clear a case of mistaken identity as I have ever seen. Look at the suspect's profile, as taken from the article:
There can't possibly be two birds fitting that description! And we know that our old friend Red 8T ticks every single box on the list.
Consider also that our only witness is an artist, not an osprey fanatic. He has no reason to know that darvics are read up the leg (when they are put on right way up, at least!) It is stretching things a bit by our standards, but without the background knowledge we take for granted, and if you were determined to read it the other way, I can see how the ring could be read as A8, especially if the letter was partly obscured.
Yes, no question at all. There was never any doubt in my mind on reading the article that it was Red 8T.
Whew!
[Edited by moderators]For info, Black 80 left on migration last weekend: interestingly, before the chicks.
Thank you Milly and Barmore :) Went to see Black 80 this year as I did 2 years ago - love the Threave area
Valerie