Well September did prove to be a somewhat quieter month but it had its moments.
The great news is that Millicent survived her journey across the Sahara and is now inhabiting the area where Ceulan stayed in 2012. Indeed her behaviour is remarkably similar to Ceulan.
The Glaslyn birds all finally migrated in early September. Then just last night we got the magnificent news that the male bird at Roudsea Wood is none other than White YC a bird hatched at Glaslyn in 2008. So yet another Glaslyn osprey comes back from the "dead". A great triumph for Natural England too as it is the first time that they have an osprey nest on one of their reserves. At Dyfi Deri finally migrated on Thursday 4 September. Then there was a surprise as Monty put on a wonderful display of loafing on his perch for three days. Finally on the morning of Sunday 7th September he took off and circled higher and higher until he was a dot in the Cors Dyfi sky and then he turned south and was gone. A very emotional moment for the fans.
There was a lot of tracking data over the month. Kielder tracked three grand chicks of Glaslyn. There were also birds from Aberfoyle and the Lake District. Further afield there are five Finnish birds and five translocated to Urdaibai in Spain. Across the Atlantic about 25 ospreys are being tracked in the USA.
On Saturday 13 September Nel was finally released to the wild again.
So the osprey world continues to thrill and distress in large amounts. However I feel that all our world's would be less rich if we did not have them to pull at our heartstrings.
One other thing of interest. The other day I noticed that our website had a hit from Tuktoyaktuk. I looked it us and this is a very remote Inuit hamlet in the extreme north of Canada. It seems that interest in ospreys is everywhere.
Still it is going to be quiet now and the only viewing is the countdown clocks to when they return in March 2015.
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Thanks TM for your greatly informative start to the 'quiet period' & can only hope that our 'heartstrings' are are allowed R&R with only good news of our dear migrant Ospreys!
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Time is rushing by as always. Great summary of the last month Tiger :)
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A marvellous blog, Tiger. Thank you so much.
Hazel b said:Monty put on a wonderful display of loafing on his perch for three days. Finally on the morning of Sunday 7th September he took off and circled higher and higher until he was a dot in the Cors Dyfi sky and then he turned south and was gone. A very emotional moment for the fans.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Thank you also Tiger and now the months ahead waiting anxiously on news of the birds.
Thanks TIGER Very comprehensive summary....and a loooooong wait until March
Many thanks, Tiger. Fingers crossed for all those heart string tuggers!
Kind regards, Ann
A rare sighting of an osprey on Iceland
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Yes, I have been watching that. All very interesting Tiger. Not somewhere you would expect to find an osprey. Perhaps we will be getting hits from Iceland soon :)
Wondering where it will go from there though.
Chloe - its not in a good place is it? Being a relatively new follower of ospreys - I assume its either a Scandinavian or Scottish bird gone wrong and it has its work cut out together with a whole heap of luck getting to either Ireland (closest) or Scotland to commence migration to sunnier climes. Glad we are not following it as a tracked bird!