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.
Tiger Signature
Sorry to hijack this thread, just thought you would like to see thread about our updated terms and conditions. See below:
www.rspb.org.uk/.../113907.aspx
Hi, folks. You might enjoy this follow-up narrative from Hawkwatch about a HUGE "flock" of ospreys blown together over the Florida Keys by an Atlantic storm. Also, the short video of the count is fun to watch. If you aren't interested in the U.S. birds, you can skip this. :-)
Here's a sample:
"Rain continued for nearly an hour. What followed was a low flying “mat” of back-to-back Ospreys in slow flight over the trajectory of the Keys’ island chain, towards the SSW. At times, dozens of Ospreys could be seen simultaneously. SW and away from our count site, the horizon was dotted with them; at one point I counted about 35 Ospreys in a single binocular view. By the time that hour was over, we had tallied 301, bringing our day’s total for that species to 394, and shattering the previous single-day high count of 340 from 2003!"
floridakeyshawkwatch.wordpress.com/.../the-best-osprey-migration-in-the-keys
Mrs T
Is it now NOT permissible to post links to the Scottish Wldlife Trust on the Loch of the Lowes thread??or other non RSPB Bird sites?
"A contribution must not
Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites"
I do hope this refers only to 'commercial' sites rather than as you suggest Kate. That would be a disaster!
Birdies LG DU update.
I religiously poured through all updated T&C's but did get slightly bogged down ... Are there any simplified do's & dont's available relating to things we are mainly involved with on the general community?
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Kate: This primarily refers to commercial links, so for example advertising football boots or the latest beauty product.
Wendy: Apologies for the lengthy document, but we thought it important to provide detailed instructions and guidelines.
Thanks Mrs T and Wendy.
Always nice to have things clarified.....
So we can all still enjoy our beloved Osprey's without fear of contravening anything CHOL:):)
Thank you Mrs T. I am sure that is a great relief to all.
Kate and MrsT--Thanks for the question and the answer re other links--I wondered about that, too.
Mrs. T, I read the new document, but since I do not remember the previous version, please could you point out any major changes if there are any--thanks!
Kind regards, Ann
It is hard to believe but it is only 89 days to 1st March and the opening of the guessing game of when EJ will return.
Just over 112 days until we can expect EJ