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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Is Beatrice on her way? If history is anything to go by she may be. Keep checking Roy Dennis' page for news.
She is a bird of habit for sure Tiger. Wonder if Red8T is on his way also.
Tempo said: She is a bird of habit for sure Tiger. Wonder if Red8T is on his way also.
No Red 8T is a much later bird. One would not expect him to be moving for another two weeks. We will not know as his tracker is now dead.
I bet EJ the Beautiful is on her way.
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 bet EJ the Beautiful is on her way.
She may not be. An osprey can cover the distance from Africa to Scotland in about 17 days so she may not have begun. On the other hand we have no way of knowing how fast she is or if she does stopovers.
She always looks in wonderful condition when she arrives - as though she has planned her journey well, including stops. I suppose that would make sense for such an experienced bird.
We have no idea where she overwinters either, so no idea how far she has to travel.
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Beatrice is on her way.
So very exciting TM!
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Like clockwork. Only one day out on last year.