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.
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Was it 2012 that there was a firework event that caused a nest to fail?
I have no idea Tiger, but it doesn't surprise me. Presumably on 4 July??
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SheilaFE said: I have no idea Tiger, but it doesn't surprise me. Presumably on 4 July??
No it was a Scottish nest.
Hazel b said: 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.
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.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
HI Clare - was it the same mallard or was she fishing elsewhere?
Tiger - just checked up on Pale Male yesterday and they have 3 chicks fledged and some lovely photographs of them!
So Pale Male does it again.
Great news! I don't check on Pale Male nearly as often as I used to. Lincoln's and Marie Winn's site were on my daily visits list for years.
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At last. Video of the rescue of Nell
Awwww! Thanks, Tiger - though I was surprised to see that little Nel still had the strength to sit up so strongly.
Clare Bailey said: Awwww! Thanks, Tiger - though I was surprised to see that little Nel still had the strength to sit up so strongly.
There is a video around of how Nel looked yesterday.