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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WendyBartter said: See on FB that the Osp pair at Alcoa are bringing sticks to new very odd, nest! Couple of pics of them in nest show that it's not quite as small as it looks but ... will it suffice?
See on FB that the Osp pair at Alcoa are bringing sticks to new very odd, nest! Couple of pics of them in nest show that it's not quite as small as it looks but ... will it suffice?
I think it may have been humans brought the sticks.
Wow like the new nest at Alcoa. THe problem over the last couple of years was that all the next material sticks kept falling out of off and basically box void of sticks. hopefully the little ones will be safe in this basin even without sticks - they just need some moss or similar
I'm not keen on it, but I didn't think much of the other one either.
Looks like a barbecue
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It seems a bit slippery and the sticks have nothing to catch on. They are going to have to work hard to get it ready.
These round steel trays do OK. This is one I took a picture of in Sanibel FL and many of the nests there are similar structures to that in Alcoa - SC.
Hazel b said: See on FB that the Osp pair at Alcoa are bringing sticks to new very odd, nest! Couple of pics of them in nest show that it's not quite as small as it looks but ... will it suffice?
[/quote]The guys did throw a few sticks in but then the Osp pair came back & were bringing their own, pics were posted of this on Osprey Friends but can't give you a link!
2013 photos & vids here
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Very big sticks, too!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Thank you for posting the picture Keith, that helps to give a better perspective of the likely size and how the ospreys fill it.
Unknown said: Strathallan Castle and T in the Park - I had a run over to Strathallan Castle yesterday as it is only 10 miles from the house. There was no signs of a new nest or either the old nest being demolished so not sure what they are doing
Strathallan Castle and T in the Park - I had a run over to Strathallan Castle yesterday as it is only 10 miles from the house.
There was no signs of a new nest or either the old nest being demolished so not sure what they are doing
NATURE GROUPS HIT OUT AT T IN THE PARK
Unknown said: Very big sticks, too!