Well May has arrived and it is the month that we expect to see see osprey chicks.
At Loch Garten it has been unusually routine. Just nest building, mating, egg laying and incubating. Very unusual for Loch Garten where there is usually one drama or other.
This year we were able to see Blue XD on his migration but he was hopelessly outpaced by Odin this year and he was also closely followed by his wife Green J.
I am led to believe that there is a male at Twin Cities Metro who has two nests. I wonder how he will get on.
As thought likely 5R at Rutland did not return. There is sadness that such a wonderful osprey will no longer be with us. I will never forget how he was the first osprey hatched in England to return for 150 years. I personally followed his hatching and growing up too
Still 5R was the only major casualty of the migration so it has been an excellent season so far.
Lady got on with laying eggs and preparing for a new lot of chicks.
At Dyfi there was huge drama. A new young female called Blue 24 (an osprey hatched at site O Rutland in 2010) arrived and took possession of the nest. She was later joined by Dai Dot a known male and they proceeded to set up nest together.
Then on 9th April Monty turned up and evicted Dai Dot and got friendly with Blue 24. On 10th April Glesni turned up and initially failed in her attempts to evict Blue 24. It took five days for Glesni to evict Blue 24 and harmony to be restored on the Dyfi nest.
At Manton Bay 5R is being sorely missed. The female now named Maya paired up with 28 (10) a male hatched at site B. A clutch of eggs was laid but a male osprey called 33 (11) turned up and created mayhem causing the nest to be lost and 28 (10) apparently driven off. What will happen now is anyone's guess.
Everywhere else appears to be quiet.
Blue YD caused great excitement by starting his journey north. how long will he take. We should know his latest position later today.
So May should bring lots of excitement.
Oh and imagicat our osprey data site has had a makeover so that it should work better on tablets and smart phones
Tiger Signature
We would have to put days, hours and minutes if we want to be exact - providing we know the times of course
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
A lot of these statistics are dependant on technology. It is only because of the night sights that we are aware of a hatching last night.
In Scottish Ospreys describing they were celebrating the first hatching on June 5. Yet no fish were brought to the nest for another four days. I guess their celebration was a little bit early.
I wonder if LG will update soon? Will be interesting to see what they say.
In view of their unusual generosity with tweets I was expecting a blog by now. Maybe Sunday is a short-staff day.
IMAGICAT
So the official time is given as 23.40. 36 days it is.
Well, the second egg hatched before 7:51 this evening. How well does that fit the equation?
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: Well, the second egg hatched before 7:51 this evening. How well does that fit the equation?
Well the equation was predicting x + 39
Now the hatch was at x + 38 which would have become x+39 in 4 hours and 9 minutes.
However this is EJ we are talking about and she almost always hatches a day early.
So the equation worked very well indeed.
Third chick expected at x + 6 + 35 = x+41
So next chick due on Thursday 22 May
Maybe a day earlier since it is EJ
Does this mean EJ is not into algebra Tiger? :)
ChloeB said: Does this mean EJ is not into algebra Tiger? :)
Well I could rewrite the formula like so
1. Date of hatching of egg #1 = date of laying of egg #1 + 37 days
2. Date of hatching of egg #2 = date of laying of egg #1 + 39 days
3. Date of hatching of egg #3 = date of laying of egg #1 + 41 days
EJ says that she is very good at algebra.