Osprey Chat Thread for March 2015

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.