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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Exciting news. How did it manage to get so far up the country without being seen before! Come on everyone, it is now that time of year to 'keep looking up'!
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Another seen in Verwood, Dorset at 16.33 today.
Great news that Ospreys have been seen in Britain! Here we go!
Kind regards, Ann
Unknown said: Great news that Ospreys have been seen in Britain! Here we go!
I often wonder where these early birds are going. It seems too early to be getting back to a nest although four are reported to be at nests in France.
Oh the second osprey is back at Alcoa right on schedule.
Hazel b said:I often wonder where these early birds are going. It seems too early to be getting back to a nest although four are reported to be at nests in France.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Tiger and Clare, I, too, wonder where they are going. And will they be able to find fish when it is still winter in much of their nesting area in the UK? And as you say, still winter in Scandinavia, Clare!
Unknown said: Tiger and Clare, I, too, wonder where they are going. And will they be able to find fish when it is still winter in much of their nesting area in the UK? And as you say, still winter in Scandinavia, Clare!
Everything we know points to breeding ospreys going directly to their nests. Yet we have seen ospreys around in February in previous years.
It is odd that they seem to be late this year.
Oh there is a huge dust cloud over the Sahara just now. That might mean that birds due here in late March might be delayed.
It will be interesting to see when Blue XD moves.
We are getting some of that sand dust over here. My windows are covered in it!
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