Osprey Chat Thread for January and February 2017

Look forward to hearing, Lmac

The wait has dropped below  50 days 

Unknown said:

Utterly destroyed is what report says. I will be up with the next two weeks so I will go look. Report says rebuilding at beginning March by Abernethy team. Volunteers will stick and branch gather. It's says reconstruct as nest blown down so I am assuming just the nest.  Will update when I swing past and take a snap or two

Hi Lmac - Thanks for the update and thanks for any future updates once you are up in the area again. I know you go up very regularly. I am not sure but from my observations of that particular nest I think it was re-enforced with some form of platform supporting it. I'll need to study my past photographs of the nest. This is one I took 2015 season.

So it has arrived. The last osprey free month. Amazingly how quickly it comes around.

By this time next month the ospreys will be on their way north.

Here is the osprey news bulletin for February 2017

Thanks, Tiger, not long now.

Looking forward to Lmac's update on LI.  Thank you Keith, for your comment.

For those who follow FB, the RSPB Operation Osprey page has been renamed:  RSPB Loch Garten, Abernethy  and can be followed here

Only 40 days to go!!!!

Hello hope you are all well.   I took a quick detour on my dog walk today around to Loch Insh.  As you will see it is just the nest that is lost, the tree and supporting branches all appear to be intact.  I am glad that RSPB are going to rebuild.  I haven't looked at Sue's chart but Green DY (whose nest I am pretty certain this is) must be quite an age and I would hate for her return to no nest and have to rebuild (humanising and the season has not even started yet :) ....)