The osprey season has flashed past and it is hard to believe that this is the last whole month with the ospreys present.
The Loch Garten nest has been a very tranquil nest indeed. The birds now have their rings and trackers and about to enter the fledging window. Time to look at the fledging charts again. See fledging ages
The chicks at Glaslyn are already in the fledging window. One of them may fly at any time.
Sadly there are no chicks at Manton Bay or Loch of The Lowes to fledge this year. Better luck next year.
There was tragedy at Tweed Valley when the female disappeared and all three chicks quickly perished.
The last ten days of June were dominated by the saga of Nellie and her chicks in Nelson British Columbia after Nelson the male was sadly killed. With a bit of human help she is trying to bring up two chicks as a single mother. Right now it seems to be going well.
Both chicks at Dyfi have hatched and the chicks are growing well closely monitored by Blue 24 who is still not giving up. There was also a report of a fourth nest in Wales this year so that is good news.
There are now four nests in north west England which is excellent news.
Great news from Kielder too with them reporting a third nest with chicks.
So something of a mixed month but overall still lots of things to fascinate.
Tiger Signature
Excellent intro as always Tiger. Hope all goes well for this year's fledglings.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Thanks TM for your concise summary, no excuse now for not knowing wot's wot!!
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So something of a mixed month but overall still lots of things to fascinate
Grear summary TIGER and very approrpiate last sentence
Tiger- thanks for the wonderful Monthly Intros! I really appreciate them.
Thanks Tiger, excellent reporting, unlike two recent tweets I've seen which report on the one hundredth chick, and a fledging.
Richard had been at great pains to emphasise that Millie could be the one hundredth chick to FLEDGE. Not the one hundredth chick, there have been more who have sadly died before fledging. Nor has one fledged yet.
This is the Scotsman link.
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Is this the report Sheila? See Loch Garten Osprey Nest Produces 100th Chick
newspapers aare notorious for getting facts wrong Even the text under the picture isn't accurate as it reads as if Odin is in the hide LOL!
Yes, Tiger that is the link which I included in my original post.
SheilaFE said: Yes, Tiger that is the link which I included in my original post.
It was so neat I missed it. :)
Osprey story in The Times page 20 today (Wednesday 2 July). An osprey gets attacked by a mallard and drives him off. The osprey has a red ring so I suspect it is Red 8T. So Red 8T is not as tough as we are led to believe.