The great day has arrived where there are no more osprey free months for quite some time. It is a period of great excitement touched with melancholy, many old favourites will return but inevitably some will not.
At Loch Garten the big excitement will be to see EJ and Odin again. EJ will be 20 years old this year and now beginning to be a senior osprey. It will be her 9th year with Odin who is ageless.
The question being asked at Loch of The Lowes is "will LF15 win the race to be first back again this year as last?" Although she does not know it she has at least one offspring (FR3) ready to make his first journey north this year. That will be exciting.
The other early bird is Mrs G at Glaslyn. However her partner Aran will is not an early bird and is not expected in March. That must be a relief to the garfish community.
Monty and Glesni at Dyfi are not expected in March either but people will be eagerly looking for Blue 24 and Dai Dot.
There are fears for Dai Dot as he has not been seen since just after he was evicted from nest ON5 in Wales.At Manton Bay Blue 33 and Maya are eagerly awaited. Will any of their 2015 chicks come back this year?
Then there is Kielder. The big excitement there will be if UV makes it back and establishes a new nest. We know he is alive and well as there is a super secret party out there filming him in the last few days. They may be tempted to give him a lift home!
Then there is Bassenthwaite with their super osprey White 14. He did have an attempted at nesting last year.
Oh there are so many questions to be answered and the waiting is nearly over.
You can all add your wishes for the season to the thread.
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Starling said:She will post herself soon, but has flu at the moment.
Oh dear, if it's the same horrible bug I had it makes you very ill and hangs on and on - I hope she recovers very soon.
Thank you, STARLING :)
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I am on my tablet for ten days, and not sure whether I can do posh links as easily as on my laptop, but I think it is worth giving the latest Dyfi blog a wider audience than just on the Dyfi thread. News of their super-duper camera set up here, possibly! No, I can't do it sorry. http://www.dyfiospreyproject.com/blog/emyr-mwt/2017/03/04/camera-appeal-2017 The set up sounds amazing, but they are calling for donations.
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Sheila I think I managed to do posh links on my Ipad once or twice and don't know how it worked those times as have tried many times since and never seem to manage it. :-)
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Sheila, your link works perfectly.
Mary, perhaps try before the "Sun is over the yard arm"! LOL
Birdies LG DU update.
There's a new Blog from Jess.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Thank you Clare. Fingers crossed.
Hi everyone, great to be back and like everyone else I am so looking forward to another season.
Hope no one minds but I just started up a new thread for the Rutland Osprey Project for the 2017 season which is almost upon us.
One question for all ... do we again want to split Manton Bay and Rutland considering how little information there is about the rest of the nests or just run a monthly Rutland thread?
Webcam goes up around the 11th so we have a few days and it would be good to get some feedback on what everyone prefers.
I would think just one thread would be enough Karen.
Me too Karen, it makes it easier with less sites to navigate!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Mike B said: I would think just one thread would be enough Karen.
That depends on whether there is a nest on lagoon 4