Osprey Chat Thread for October, November & December 2014

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.