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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I was just watching the male at Alcoa. He was perched on the edge looking out, but couldn't turn around to poo! in the end he did so, half in, half out of the nest. Is there another perching area? I don't like it. I imagine it could take forever to fill it like Keith's picture. Female calling for food.
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stewart a said: I was just watching the male at Alcoa. He was perched on the edge looking out, but couldn't turn around to poo! in the end he did so, half in, half out of the nest. Is there another perching area? I don't like it. I imagine it could take forever to fill it like Keith's picture. Female calling for food.
All very strange.
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Indeed Tiger. Thanks for the links.
stewart a said: Indeed Tiger. Thanks for the links.
They can be modified over time.
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
Now RSPB are also concerned that nothing has been done at Strathallan Castle and that time is running out.
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Thank you for the link, Keith. I see that the Scotsman has an article about it today too.
Time is truly running out for anything to do done. A twenty-eight day consultation period will be well into the period the ospreys will be returning in number.
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So the excitement is really growing now. I wonder where 03 (97) is tonight?
09 (98) took about five days from arriving in France to getting to Rutland.
So maybe a similar schedule for 3 (97)
03(97) could be at Rutland in a few days! Hooray!
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Hazel b said: 09 (98) took about five days from arriving in France to getting to Rutland. So maybe a similar schedule for 3 (97)
Lets hope so, and 11(98) returned on the 16th March one year (2011) so it is exciting to think we may see one of them back by the middle of next week.
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