Continued from Osprey Chat Thread September 2013
At the beginning of September I said that the osprey season should have been all over but it wasn't. Well it is now. Yes the two very late osprey chicks at Dyfi viz. Clarach and Cerist finally migrated on 18th and 20th September respectively. They were incredibly well fed chicks and are now presumably well on their way to Africa. Hopefully they will return to Britain in 2015 but since they are not tracked it will be a very long and anxious wait.
Meanwhile the latest European trans location project to Basque country began to report in earnest. Five of the birds are tracked and four of them are slogging their way through the Sahara as I write. For details see here
The 2013 osprey has been the most exciting for me ever and I have now seen 15 osprey seasons. Maybe it is because more and more people are taking an interest and doing their own little pieces. Surely this can only bee good for ospreys and their well being. So all that remains is for us to follow the tracked birds to their destinations and then begin the long wait until it all begins again in March 2014.
Let us hope we all be ready for an exciting 2014
Tiger Signature
I think that the chick you are thinking of is Green 5S which was a lone chick from 2004. It was spotted in Norway in 2007. See this link
What a super picture of 5S Tiger. Thank you. There are so many wonderful photos on this link. Such treasure.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Chloe, what a beautiful card! A very happy Christmas to you as well.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Thank you Clare. That robin was sitting on a tub outside David Marshall Lodge cafe when Tiger and I visited Aberfoyle.
ChloeB a beautiful card thank you. Have a wonderful Christmas.
Thank you Margo, you too.
Thanks CHLOE I hope you too have a happy and peaceful Christmas
Thanks Patily.
So lovely, thank you CHLOE - trust you had a good day too .