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So 2014 has arrived and the new osprey season now starts the month after next. Or does it? The ospreys at Sanibel are already starting to nest and the wonders of the internet allow us to follow their fortunes.Then there is more than one expedition of people going out to west Africa to watch the ospreys in their winter quarters and forge links with the people out there. The Rutland team are off next Tuesday to continue their ongoing work out there. I see that Roy Dennis is going too. There are some other people going out in February. Thus before we know it , March will have arrived and speculation on when EJ will arrive will have begun.So what excitement will 2014 bring? Well if it is anything like 2013 then it will be amazing.
Well my big hope for 2014 is that Caledonia makes it back to Scotland and after nearly 11 years of watching I will have seen a Loch Garten bred chick definitely return. Of course one hopes that Blue YD makes it too.
Of course there will be a lot of pleasure and a lot of pain. But then what osprey season does not have that?
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Great news Tiger. Lets hope its a good year for them.
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Mary, hope it's a better year than last year.
Yes lets hope so Lowry, looking forward to the webcam starting.
Migration hold many dangers for ospreys. However if you look at the weather they are having in the USA just now you realise just why they have to migrate. Staying put would mean certain death for most of them. See video
That's unbelievable, Tiger. I can't believe people are trying to cycle and jog in such conditions! I hope that weather doesn't come any further south.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Amen to that Fish.
I wonder who the bird was who intruded at LG back in 2007? Apparently neither EJ nor Henry were overly bothered by it and EJ only shooed it off gently when it landed on the nest. I would love to think it was one of her young.
Oh, so would I Clare. I would also love to know why it is that, as far as I know, no LG chick has been seen back in the area. I would like to think that Garten may one day appear, and for all we know the three 2010 chicks may well have returned... There seem to be a number of reports of ringless birds these days.
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Another question left unresolved is whether this is a son of EJ :
Sadly another unresolved mystery.
Hazel b said: Another question left unresolved is whether this is a son of EJ : Sadly another unresolved mystery.
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