So this is the month you have been waiting on, the month when EJ and Odin should return to Loch Garten and set off a new breeding cycle. This will be the seventh year of them as a couple. Before the month is out we will know a lot more than we know now.
Right now we do know that the ospreys are moving north but it is a question of when will be the first osprey back on its nest in Britain. In recent years that honour has fallen to 3 (97) the great rutland patriarch. Start checking the skies from the 15 March onwards.
There will be much anxiety as to whether Lady arrives. She is not expected until the end of March.
The Glaslyn pair are usually very early too and they usually get down to breeding right away. They hold the record of the earliest ever osprey egg known to be laid in Britain.
Then there is Monty and Glesni. I know they are not due in March but Blue 24 is. Will Blue 24 be around for another season of harassment? We await the answer to that one with interest.
Then there are all those nests in the Lake District now. Will Bassenthwaite get a tracked osprey home. White 14 looks as if he might be heading north already.
Then of course there is Kielder. The one thing we can be sure of is that we get plenty of news from Kielder and the two Welsh males there.
So it is all beginning and no rest now until September.
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Yes, Dyfi cam is live. Now just waiting for LG to change from the nut feeder to the nest. Hurry home EJ :)
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
Plus this morning's great news about Blue 7H :) What a start to the month :D
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Who said that not knowing is better?
:)
Hazel b said: Who said that not knowing is better?
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Clare Bailey said:I think it depends on the situation. I'm delighted I know about the ongoing survival of Breagh..........I wish I didn't know about Seasca and Millie. And I'm delighted that EJ's whereabouts and likely arrival time remain anybody's guess!
Yes but you got to choose one or the other. Not a mixture of the two.
I am firmly in the "I want to know regardless camp".
Me too Tiger.
I like to know......but it's heartbreaking at times.
Clare Bailey said: I like to know......but it's heartbreaking at times.
I am reminded of Matthew in "A Man for All Seasons" when he has been let go my Sir Thomas More
All right, so he’s down on his luck! I’m sorry. I don’t mind saying that: I’m sorry! Bad luck! If I’d any good luck to spare he could have some. I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rainwater was beer! But it isn’t! . . . And what with not having wings but walking-on two flat feet; and good luck and bad luck being just exactly even stevens; and rain being water—don’t you complicate the job by putting things in me for me to miss! (Act Two, scene two)
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