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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LOL! That cab driver's expression is priceless!
I know you're Irish, Tiger, but you don't really use that expression - do you?
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Clare Bailey said: LOL! That cab driver's expression is priceless! I know you're Irish, Tiger, but you don't really use that expression - do you?
Perish the thought. It is that devilish ChloeB that dreamt up that.
That's why you like her so much. She has a great sense of humour.
Stats sites all ready for the new season
Three new sites.
Ospreywatch Express ready and waiting
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Thanks TIGER and CHLOE
Just been testing all my webcam favourites....all ready
Thank you both.
Birdies LG DU update.
THE SCOTTISH WILDLIFE TRUST - PROTECTIING SCOTLANDS WILDLIFE FOR THE FUTURE.
At least this group object to holding the T in the Park at Strathallan Castle - Auchterarder more than can be said for RSPB who refuse to object to the proposal and will work with DF concerts as advisory. I understand the organisers will destroy the original nest and lop off the top of the tree to avoid building a new nest in this tree and errect a new nest 300 m away. I imagine Keith Brockie may be involved with this.
SWT OBJECTION
Given that there is another month extension to the consultation then why move an osprey nest un-necessary when we do not even know the event will take place. By that time the osprey will have returned and under schedule 1 of the W & C Act it is an offence to intentionally disturb an osprey nest whilst it is building a nest or is in it.
RSPB RESPONSE
For some reasons these links are sometimes blocked but if you wish to review the planning permission project - all objections see this
http://planningapps.pkc.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=NI7Z58MKGUR00
Hope it works.
When will the webcam show us the nest? Will there be a working microphone? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything is set up and running before EJ arrives at the LG nest.
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