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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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What a stunning looking bird TIGER.
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I have just posted this on another thread, but thought perhaps it was more appropriate here:
I keep snippets of information, in no particular order (as they say!) and see that in 2012 a Mike Crutch reported seeing Green 2E(00) at Lochindorb. Mike Crutch spoke to RD who confirmed he ringed the bird at LG on 4 July 2000 and at the time it was a bit under-weight and had a fish hook stuck down his throat. That sighting was the first time that osprey was seen in 12 years. I don't know where I read that info, but I must have copied and pasted it into a doc for safe keeping - then forgot about it! Whether it was in 2012 or 2013 I really am not sure, but at the time RD thought the bird was nesting in the area and he had seen it (this) year - whether 2012 or 2013.
So a LG juvenile has returned after all.
Yes that story has been around for quite a while now. I do not know why Loch Garten has not mentioned it.
There is is great picture of the bird on Mike Crutch's Flickr page.
Got some great pictures of Blue XD too.
Mike Crutch has some fab photos of Green 2E(00. Thanks Tiger. I wonder who AH is? I see that RD rehabbed a Blue HA from foods on the Spey, Sept 09. Could it be another upside down number?
It did make me wonder too when I first saw the report on Facebook on 5 Dec why Loch Garten had not mentioned it. Mike Crutch's report said he photographed Green 2E(00) on 30 June 2012, so lets hope there are many more sightings of him. I am just thinking I sat on the same Loch for over an hour on 12 July last year and could hear the cry of Ospreys but could not see them, I may have heard this very same Osprey you never know :-)
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Amazing discovery made by tracking. See "Unique" bird migration discovered.
Yes. What a pity he was evicted before we found out for definite. However he is likely to be out there somewhere.
Hazel b said: Amazing discovery made by tracking. See "Unique" bird migration discovered.
Saw this on TV when it was broadcast Tiger, what an amazing journey for such a small bird.
Here was a nice picture of Beatrice taken just a week before Christmas. See picture of Beatrice
That is a lovely photo, Tiger.
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