AUGUST - the month for migrations, tracking and empty nests.
The above picture is of the early flights around the nest of ALL the osprey sat tagged at Loch Garten. Looks like a celebration, doesn't it?
In August/September 2011 I discussed on this thread with various posters about the rescue of an injured bird at Tweed Valley BLUE LT.
He was a two year old returning to Scotland for the first time and after rescue spent two weeks at South of Scotland Wildlife Rescue Centre before being released.
This was the initial report back in August 2011
BLUE LT RESCUED
Well after release he must have made it to Africa and a few weeks ago he was spotted on the main nest at Tweed Valley with an unringed female but was soon chased off by WHITE SS who still holds this nest - A great ending to the rescue story some three years later.
BLUE LT SIGHTED 2014
Settled in Welshpool tonight and only an hour to Dyfi after breakfast tomorrow.
Good for you, Keith. I hope the birds put on a good show for you. And that you have some good pictures from and OF their new observation deck to share with us.
Also, thanks for your news about Blue LT of Tweed Valley. I'm checking it out.
The first known osprey to fledge in Wales since extinction fledged from a nest near Welshpool in 2004.
It was a single chick from Rutland Water translocation stock 07/97 and a bird from Black Isle in Scotland.
Unfortunately they could not access the nest even though they tried and the chick was never ringed. The birds did not return the next year.
However I do have a s strong suspician I may be seeing this chick as a ten year old tomorrow known as MONTY the unringed male at Dyfi. I have always thought of Monty as this chick though we will never know - maybe he is Scottish.
It is nice to know who our osprey are and their history and where they winter. Wouldn't we love to know where EJ goes when she leaves Loch Garten and where Oden was born and how old he really is.
Even so, I still like to think of the truly WILD nests and osprey families. No cams, no rings, no antennas. Maybe even in a real tree in a wild area and only a few trusted people know where they are. I hope we (Scotland, UK) always have some like that.
Who knows, you may be right KEITH that Monty is that unringed chick. Hope so!!
Night-time exercises at DYFI.
Unknown said: Even so, I still like to think of the truly WILD nests and osprey families. No cams, no rings, no antennas. Maybe even in a real tree in a wild area and only a few trusted people know where they are. I hope we (Scotland, UK) always have some like that.
Again three chicks and this picture shows one in the nest and one at perch above. (SPOT THE OSPREYS)
They prefering the dead tree now.
Not good pictures but it pictures the scene - Even so, I still like to think of the truly WILD nests and osprey families. No cams, no rings, no antennas. Maybe even in a real tree in a wild area and only a few trusted people know where they are. I hope we (Scotland, UK) always have some like that. Yes Scotland has many like that.
THANKS KEITH. This is exactly what I mean. I can't see the osprey or even the nest, but you say they are there, so I know they are.
Originally this is what I thought Lochter was like. I had to adjust my thinking when I learned it was totally opposite, but now I love it for what it is.
Keith, thank you for picking up on my comment and answering it so beautifully. It was good for my soul to come online on a Sunday morning and find your pictures and descriptions.
Have a good day at Dyfi.
Oh yes, scrolling back up and looking some more, I found the nest. Almost exactly center of the first picture. And maybe the white speck at the top of the dead tree is an osprey.
LOVE IT!
"Yes Scotland has many like that" And Who knows? Maybe, just maybe! my own beloved Garten, ringed but not taged, is fathering one of these nests somewhere in Scotland, his homeland.
This is where Osprey should be, not in man-made boxes on electricity pylons. But if osprey insist on nesting on pylons and boxes make it safer for all concerned (humans and birds)so be it.