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
Only when wet !! I thought Mallachie looked rather like Odin.
Interesting link to north American tracked ospreys. Donovan seems to have changed his mind and turned back. See here
One very clued up Osprey for which I am heartily glad
There's a new Blog from Richard featuring some excellent news of Breagh.
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: There's a new Blog from Richard featuring some excellent news of Breagh.
Excellent news
Is there an update due on YZ?
Tempo said: Is there an update due on YZ?
It came in about two hours ago or more. YZ is through the Sahara.
Great news! :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Well that is really the end of the osprey season. No more British birds on the "road"....well there may be but we do not know about them.
I was just noting that 26 years ago today people were waking up to the aftermath of the "Great Storm" and Michael Fish knew that life would never be the same again.
Oh well best get things done before the 1st March 2014 or it will all be starting again.
Meanwhile there is the EJ and Odin Countdown Clock
So thankful that Breagha is safely over the desert. Hopefully, Oighrig has also found a safe place in the pecking order.
Could wish there were not quite so many days difference in arrival times between EJ and Odin