There are several nests with healthy active bobbleheads which we will be watching with interest this summer. We expect a fine show of fledglings during late June & July, with many strong beautiful juvenile osprey migrating to their winter homes in Africa come August and September.
I do hope you will still find this a place to share any news of the osprey world that is of interest to you as well as other matters of interest. If anything pops up on Facebook I'll post it here.
Unfortunately they don't retire and if a bird doesn't return it is likely that death is the answer or they have returned to a different nest as green j did last year after being ousted by a younger and or stronger bird. No happy reason although to be found for non returns
Good evening all. June I love the grateful passenger. Lucky someone was around to rescue him he would have drowned probably! Kind soul. I agree that the last blog was a bit of a fairy tale but just because EJ hasn't returned it still maybe she has gone on a holiday as her nest had failed. I do not believe that they retire and agree that if she did not return next year the likely reason would be that she has passed. I think he was writing that to make us feel a bit better. Well see what next year will bring. I do find Odins disappearance strange
LOL, Keith! No one will force you to swallow fairy tales!
Kind regards, Ann
I love fairytales and a good romance, but I do know the difference between fiction and reality. I don't retract any of the posts I have made lately. My personal opinion I think EJ chased an intruder and was badly injured or killed.
I THINK, but I don't KNOW, do I? And I believe neither do the well-trained officials, the self-trained up-close-and-personal careful observers or the mere watcher who has mostly focused from afar on one nest for nine seasons. Nor will we know until someone finds EJ's rings, which is possible, but not likely, again in my opinion.
In the meantime it IS also possible that the very best scenario has happened and that EJ is perched happily on a branch, fish in claw, overlooking a white beach in west Africa on the eastern shore of the great Atlantic. Oh lucky EJ!
And so, not knowing, we wonder and speculate and hope and fear. And SPECULATION IS GOOD! For me anyway. For me it is very good to hear others opinions and expectations and hopes for the future and to be able to express mine. It helps a wee bit to relieve some of the grief, horror and frustration that I have felt most of this season.
JUNE and ALL
I have to admit I like and admire all the posts after my 10:15 (11/8) Fairy Tales whatever story each tells.
Like many others I have an opinion that Ospreys do not retire and spend their latter years in the sunshine lazing on the cruising creek. However there is no real evidence that this does not happen and I just wonder why Roy re-tagged Green J so late in life. Was it just a fascination for a particular friend or did he want to know what happens to a particular bird in later life.
Well one thing we did learn from this late tagging was that despite Green J being a dominant female in earlier life she was ousted from her home for many years by a much stronger and younger female. Well her tracker told us she never succumbed to a fatality in the altercation but merely moved away. Unfortunately whilst living away her tracker failed but she was sighted home again the following season at a new nest with a new male.
YES we could see EJ back next season as we do not know what has happened to her. I will go along with the others and assume if we do not see her she has either passed us by this summer or over the winter months. Then we may see not a Fairy Tale but Tales of the Unexpected and she turns up at another nest. I just find it strange we have not seen her at Rothiemurchus Fishery or Aviemore Lochan and therefore sense that something fatal happened to her.
Ann - Don't be concerned too much about me being forced to swallow Fairy Tales.
I have a home next to Disney FL and go to Magic Kingdom almost every day to listen to the Fairy Tales and Wish upon a Star.
And for JUNE and her Wish upon a Star for Spring 2018.
I will quote from Gill Lewis - SKY HAWK and you may relate this to EJ.
The pattern of this landscape is folded deep, deep within her memory. She rides the currents of air that curl like rapids over the mountains. Below, the lochs reflect the cloud and sunlight. They lie in the valleys like scattered fragments of fallen sky. The cold north wind carries the remembered scent of pine and heather. The ice carved valley guides her.
SHE IS COMING
Good evening all. It's always nice to think the best scenario. I too love fairy tales and Disney too. I think with ospreys now I have learned to expect the unexpected! We are learning something new about these beautiful birds all the time! They even confound the experts! Hope that remains the case and there's always a little of the unknown! :)