For years people have been asking when the next British osprey translocation will happen, it being over 20 years since the one at Rutland began.
On 20th June 2017 we finally got to know that it is to be to Poole Harbour and what exciting news that was. To complement this Roy Dennis has also opened a new Facebook page called Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation
They are looking for 200 people to become conservation champions for a minimum donation of £250 each. All donations are welcome.
The project is a partnership between the Foundation, local charity Birds of Poole Harbour, and Poole based-business Wildlife Windows and is part of a wider conservation recovery plan of osprey in Western Europe and the Mediterranean region which was recently commissioned by the Council of Europe and authored by Roy Dennis.
This is such exciting news that will keep people interested for the rest of our lives.
Tiger Signature
9 August 2017
Birds of Poole Harbour
44 mins ·
Adult female @rutlandospreys CJ7 roosted with our Osprey chicks last night but left about 8am this morning @timmackrill @royhdennis https://t.co/CuZRRlOWiL
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
Have we any idea who CJ7's parents are?
ca 11.00am
Retweeted Simon Kidner (@SimonKidner):
@harbourbirds @rutlandospreys @timmackrill @royhdennis bird in dead trees has blue ring on right leg
It looks as though CJ7 hasn't gone too far!
Sheila
I didn't have Blue CJ7 on the spreadsheet, prior to her appearence at Poole this week, so I think that Rutland Project didn't give a complete list of chicks & nests in 2015. She isn't from Manton Bay (Maya) or 30(05)'s nest, but there were 6 other successful nests that year.
SheilaFE said: Have we any idea who CJ7's parents are?
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 Sue, and Clare! I may well follow that up. There is always more than one way to skin a cat!
ROP has written a blog about the sighting but sadly still gives no detail
Sheila. You may get lucky at BTO BUT my experience is that they will refer you to Roy Dennis.
The info in the Blog is probably all we will get as Rutland have never given out the full details of their birds other than those in Manton Bay and one or two others which came to notice. Site B was sometimes mentioned.
Birdies LG DU update.
The detail as posted by the Poole team. Site in full to enable photos to display.
Mike B said: The info in the Blog is probably all we will get as Rutland have never given out the full details of their birds other than those in Manton Bay and one or two others which came to notice. Site B was sometimes mentioned.
Thanks Mike and Vespa. I've said it before, but I don't understand the rationale behind that decision. I have asked the question of BTO, and will be interested to hear what they have to say.