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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Thanks for the news of the symposium JSB. How I'd love to be there. I wonder if Tim will give news of it on one of the Rutland Blogs. Probably not ....
THIS is the agenda (4 pages) for the Osprey conference in English.
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Thank you NOISETTE
Thanks to jsb and Noisette
Unknown said: Thanks for the news of the symposium JSB. How I'd love to be there. I wonder if Tim will give news of it on one of the Rutland Blogs. Probably not ....
I understand that Tim will do a Blog on it at some point.
Birdies LG DU update.
Hazel C said: THIS is the agenda (4 pages) for the Osprey conference in English.
Thank you, NOISETTE :-)
I'm puzzled by this (puzzlement borne out of ignorance, of course):
Is "continental" France the same as mainland France? If so, I'm shocked to see only 36 breeding pairs in that comparatively large country :o
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Mike B said: Thanks for the news of the symposium JSB. How I'd love to be there. I wonder if Tim will give news of it on one of the Rutland Blogs. Probably not ....
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oh, clap clap clap clap clap :) Thank you MIKE
scylla said:Is "continental" France the same as mainland France?
Yes, but 'continental' is not a notion used by the French normally. Here is an explanation.
Maybe the previous estimate has changed to one of of 36 pairs (excluding Corsica) ......I would have thought slightly higher, but the figure I saw may have included Corsica. There are parts of France that do not seem to be counted in the LPO statistics and these parts may well contain more ospreys. I have suspected that there are areas, where lack of publicity, has been deemed the best course of action. Britanny is one area, where you hear almost nothing.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Thank you JSB.
Interesting osprey programme shown 4.15pm on Tuesday 24 September 2013