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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I am not dwelling too much on the fact that I could have been there too! Honest! :D
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Hazel b said: So an osprey with a satellite tag in Mull. Where on earth could it be coming from?
So an osprey with a satellite tag in Mull. Where on earth could it be coming from?
This website says....... "Osprey is regular in both spring and autumn, often near the Kinloch Hotel.." So said another Mull birding site about Mull in general.
On the list I have of UK Sat-track ospreys......the only very, very remote possibility is Rothiemurchus...unlikely, but not impossible. Morven who goes to Sutherland, before migrating, as we know..........already left in mid-August and is not known to have wandered across to Mull before. So that is ruled out. That leaves two possibilities...a UK non-transmitting bird, (MIA), or a Scandanavian one. The latter is not a case that I know much about.
But if there are regular visitors, they could be local to the Western Isles, but there are none tracked there, to our knowledge.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
I thought of Rothiemurchus - Red8T may be gone but unlikely him. One of the MIA would be fantastic.
Maybe one of the missing ones who's aerials stopped transmitting. That would be great.
Thanks jsb. I think it is very much a case of being in the right place at the right time to actually see an osprey on Mull. To see a tracked one is amazing!
Mystery solved. It was a sea eagle.
Disappointing in some respects but so pleased we got it sorted so quickly. Thanks Tiger :)
There is a new Loch Garten Blog
Tiger: Thanks for the heads up re new blog.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
So good to know they are all doing fine :)