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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Oh dear, Tiger, I don't like the news of dust. I wonder if that was what did for 5R last year.
Kind regards, Ann
Hazel b said:verything we know points to breeding ospreys going directly to their nests.
Tiger, how could you put that! :)). White YA spent at least a week in 2013 via Blagdon Lake, before he arrived home at Kielder. But it does seem an anomaly.
Unknown said:Tiger, how could you put that! :)). White YA spent at least a week in 2013 via Blagdon Lake, before he arrived home at Kielder. But it does seem an anomaly.
YA was exhausted and needed a stopover.
And Blagdon Lakes, and all that went on there in 2013, was how I became much more interested in the Kielder ospreys, and of course because of the excellent and enthusiastic write-ups from JayDee.
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SheilaFE said: And Blagdon Lakes, and all that went on there in 2013, was how I became much more interested in the Kielder ospreys, and of course because of the excellent and enthusiastic write-ups from JayDee.
Yes Blagdon lake 2013 will never be forgotten. Not repeated in 2014 mind you. March 2013 was a very cold month. In fact the last ten days were the coldest for 200 years I think.
I remember someone mentioning that the ice on the Osprey Pond at Rothiemurchus had to be broken for EJ to be able to feed there. That was a really cold spring - LG were still getting snow in mid-May, though happily it warmed up by the time we visited in the last week of May.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Hello all and good morning. Is White YA still alive? I seem to remember one who kept getting caught in a net at Blagdon Lake is this the one? Thankyou for any information!
That is the bird which kept getting trapped at Blagdon - it isn't tracked so until it returns we don't know whether it is alive or not. My fingers are crossed.
58willow said: Hello all and good morning. Is White YA still alive? I seem to remember one who kept getting caught in a net at Blagdon Lake is this the one? Thankyou for any information!
Yes he was alive and well last we saw of him on 3 September 2014
Thankyou Clare and Tiger. Yes fingers crossed for his safe return! Lets hope he avoids nets in future!