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
Not long now just around the corner. I remember when EJ returned and had to endure the snow! Thanks for the countdown clock
Glad you like the countdowns willow :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
I think the countdown clocks are great - and they have the added bonus of cheering me up whenever I look at them.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Clare Bailey said: I think the countdown clocks are great - and they have the added bonus of cheering me up whenever I look at them.
At least they give an ever better message.
Thanks Clare :)
The Countdown Clocks are brilliant. Thank You Tiger & Chloe. I would like to have them open on my desk top but I haven't found a way to do this, I don't mean a link to them, but to see them counting down on my screen (if you know what I mean).
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
I wish the countdown clocks had an extra button to tell me exactly when EJ and Odin will return, right down to the second.
"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
Magnus Ullman
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Asking a lot there Limpy LOLOLOL
I must confess I like the excitement of guessing when they'll arrive. I wonder how many of us were riveted to our computer screens back in March when Richard had us all hanging on that sighting?
Thanks Mary. You can get desktop countdowns but not ones like ours. They only work in a browser.