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Osprey Sightings 2018

ALAN PETRIE
02/01/2018 02:15

Osprey among the sightings at El Hondo today. Also Tonn the spotted eagle
1st January Santa Agueda

Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus)
12 Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Spotted Eagle (Tonn) (Aquila clanga)
Short Toed Eagle (adult) (Circaetus gallicus)
10+ Booted Eagles (Hieraeetus pennatus)
30+ Marsh Harriers (Circus aeruginosus)
2 Buzzards (Buteo buteo)
2 Hoopoes (Upupa epops)
Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

  • 02/04/2018 03:29 in reply to ALAN PETRIE

    French migration watchpoints

    01 apr Etang de Canet-Saint-Nazaire

    6 ospeys

    01 apr Col de l'Escrinet

    3 ospreys

    01 apr Pointe de Grave

    2 ospreys

    01 apr Leucate
    9 ospreys
    01 apr Gruissan - étang de l'Ayrolle
    14 ospreys
    01 apr Pierre-Aiguille
    7 ospreys

  • 02/04/2018 03:38 in reply to ALAN PETRIE

    Unknown said:
    09:30 01/04 Western Osprey Suffolk Kessingland 09:15
    one flew northwest over sewage works

    Always good to see a Suffolk sighting!

    What a lovely lot of ospreys today.

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 02/04/2018 15:57 in reply to Clare

    02/04 07:47 Wiltshire : Western Osprey, Horningsham

    one yesterday

    02/04 08:55 London, Greater : Western Osprey, Walthamstow Reservoirs
    one flew west; also Scandinavian Rock Pipit on Lockwood Reservoir

    10:09 02/04 Western Osprey East Sussex Weir Wood Reservoir 09:00
    one reported 
    10:11 02/04 Western Osprey Glamorgan Merthyr Mawr
    one at slacks then flew towards Porthcawl

    10:35 02/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Crook Peak NT 10:30
    one flew northwest

    11:54 02/04 Western Osprey Wiltshire Cotswold Water Park
    one at Cleveland Lakes NR at Pit 74 (SU068945)
    11:57 02/04 Western Osprey West Yorkshire Methley
    one flew low east over A639/Pinfold Lane junction with fish (SE401261)
    12:33 02/04 Western Osprey East Sussex Weir Wood Reservoir 12:05
    still from dam
    12:36 02/04 Western Osprey Devon Isley Marsh RSPB 10:30
    one flew past

    13:05 02/04 Western Osprey West Sussex Pagham Harbour LNR
    one flew northwest early afternoon 
    13:36 02/04 Western Osprey Hampshire Pennington Marshes
    one fishing then flew east 
    13:47 02/04 Western Osprey Lancashire Blundellsands 13:30
    one flew northeast

    14:05 02/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Crook Peak NT
    another flew north early afternoon; also Woodlark flew north

    14:51 02/04 Western Osprey Dorset Weymouth 01/04
    one flew over Lorton yesterday
    15:18 02/04 Western Osprey Hampshire Lymington 15:06
    one over Royal Lymington Yacht Club
    15:19 02/04 Western Osprey Lancashire Gressingham
    one flew north over Gressingham Bridge mid-afternoon
    15:43 02/04 Western Osprey Conwy Colwyn Bay
    one flew over A55 nearby
    16:49 02/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Blagdon Lake
    two at east end18:38 02/04 Western Osprey Shropshire Venus Pool NR 15:50
    one 
    18:39 02/04 Western Osprey Gwent Llandegfedd Reservoir
    one this evening 
    19:45 02/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Blagdon Lake
    two reported were Common Buzzards 
    19:45 02/04 Western Osprey Dorset Burton
    one flew over this evening after passing through Christchurch Harbour 
    19:51 02/04 Western Osprey Lincolnshire Deeping Lakes NR 16:00
    one flew north
    20:17 02/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Chew Valley Lake
    flew over Herriott's Pool to main lake
    02/04 22:04 Northamptonshire : Western Osprey, Ravensthorpe Reservoir
    one (15:55)
    02/04 22:57 Somerset & Bristol : Western Osprey, Blagdon Lake
    one (19:45)
  • 02/04/2018 21:14 in reply to ALAN PETRIE

    Thanks Alan.  Great photo.  Looks like it's a blue ring. Couldn't make out the number (5?  3?).

  • 02/04/2018 21:24 in reply to Lisa K

    Ooh, a Scottish bird.  Wonder exactly where it's headed?

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 03/04/2018 15:44 in reply to Clare

    03/04 08:39 Staffordshire : Western Osprey, Whitmore

    one at Cudmore Fisheries this morning

    09:09 03/04 Western Osprey Gwent Llandegfedd Reservoir
    still this morning

    10:49 03/04 Western Osprey East Yorkshire Southfield Reservoir 08:57
    one flew north this morning 
    10:59 03/04 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Greasbrough 10:40
    one flew northwest over Kimberworth Park this morning 
    11:01 03/04 Western Osprey Kent Dungeness RSPB
    one flew over Denge Marsh again mid-morning 
    11:03 03/04 Western Osprey Cornwall Egloshayle 10:00
    one flew north this morning 
    11:07 03/04 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Wentworth
    one flew northwest this morning

    13:00 03/04 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Strines Reservoir 12:25
    one flew north early afternoon

    13:23 03/04 Western Osprey Hertfordshire Stocker's Lake 13:20
    one circling this afternoon 
    13:28 03/04 Western Osprey Essex The Hythe 13:10
    one drifted up the River Colne this afternoon 
    13:40 03/04 Western Osprey Forth Craigforth
    one over the River Forth at c.NS775956 today

    03/04 14:39 Somerset & Bristol : Western Osprey, Ham Wall RSPB
    one flew over this afternoon (13:00)
    03/04 14:41 Staffordshire : Western Osprey, Belvide Reservoir (PERMIT ONLY)
    one flew through this afternoon (14:10)
    03/04 14:49 Warwickshire : Western Osprey, Warwick
    one flew high southeast over Saxon Mill this afternoon (14:35)

    15:19 03/04 Western Osprey Dorset Arne RSPB 10:00
    at Shipstal Point

    15:32 03/04 Western Osprey North Yorkshire Scaling Dam Reservoir
    2nd individual mid-afternoon

    17:19 03/04 Western Osprey Gloucestershire Emerson's Green
    one flew over Emerson Green Retail Park mid-late afternoon

    18:14 03/04 Western Osprey Lancashire Oakenclough
    one circled low then moved east mobbed by two Lesser Black-backed Gulls 
    18:37 03/04 Western Osprey Hertfordshire Amwell NR
    one flew north early evening 
    18:52 03/04 Western Osprey Derbyshire Carsington Water
    one flew through today

    19:51 03/04 Western Osprey North Yorkshire Heslington 19:30
    flew over Heslington East this evening 
    19:54 03/04 Western Osprey Oxfordshire Balscote Quarry NR 14:30
    one flew over this afternoon

    20:47 03/04 Western Osprey Derbyshire Ogston Reservoir 11:35
    one late morning

  • 03/04/2018 16:53 in reply to ALAN PETRIE

    Quiet day at the French migration hotspots

    02 apr Vignobles de Bellet

    1 osprey

    02 apr Col de l'Escrinet

    3 ospreys

    Still plenty of sightings in south west France on the Faune-Aquitaine site

  • 04/04/2018 03:50 in reply to ALAN PETRIE

    French migration watchpoints

    03 apr Pointe de Grave (heading for UK)

    2 ospreys

    03 apr Dunes de Prunete (Corsica)

    2 ospreys

  • 04/04/2018 16:33 in reply to ALAN PETRIE

    09:10 04/04 Western Osprey Bedfordshire Wyboston GPs

    one flew north from Wyboston Services this morning

    10:10 04/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Chew Valley Lake 07:00
    one over Herriott's Pool before flying towards the main lake again this morning

    11:03 04/04 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Thornseat Delf 10:20
    one flew north over Emlin Ridge this morning
    11:15 04/04 Western Osprey Cambridgeshire Ferry Meadows CP 09:30
    one circled a couple of times before flying off high north at 09:30; also Common Tern flew south
    11:21 04/04 Western Osprey Derbyshire Carsington Water 10:45
    one again this morning; also Great Northern Diver and Greater Scaup still

    11:35 04/04 Western Osprey Dorset Middlebere 11:15
    one this morning 
    12:40 04/04 Western Osprey Cheshire Marbury CP 12:15
    one over Budworth Mere before flying off northeast early afternoon
    13:25 04/04 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Midhope Moor Watchpoint
    one over the Shaw Lane junction with low Moor Lane today
    13:40 04/04 Western Osprey Warwickshire Draycote Water 09:05
    one flew northwest this morning 
    13:41 04/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Sutton Bingham Reservoir 13:18
    one at the south end this afternoon 
    13:43 04/04 Western Osprey Somerset & Bristol Five Bells 08:00
    one flew west this morning
    14:19 04/04 Western Osprey Lancashire Great Marton 13:24
    one flew north over Preston New Road this afternoon
    16:05 04/04 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Midhope Reservoir 15:15
    one flew over Low Moor towards Langsett Reservoir 
    16:08 04/04 Western Osprey Buckinghamshire Little Marlow GPs 15:37
    one flew north 
    16:14 04/04 Western Osprey Cleveland Skinningrove 19:30 03/04
    one yesterday then flew NNE
    16:30 04/04 Western Osprey Kent Margate
    one flew over seafront 
    16:32 04/04 Western Osprey Manchester, Greater Aspull 14:45
    one flew towards Chorley 
    16:33 04/04 Western Osprey Manchester, Greater Hindley 15:35
    one flew southeast
    16:49 04/04 Western Osprey Staffordshire Blithfield Reservoir
    one in Tad Bay late afternoon 
    17:26 04/04 Western Osprey Lancashire Knott End-on-Sea
    one flew east mid-afternoon 
    18:48 04/04 Western Osprey Dorset Portland 18:00
    one flew north over Southwell 
    18:53 04/04 Western Osprey Carmarthen Kidwelly 03/04
    one at Kidwelly Quay yesterday

    19:59 04/04 Western Osprey Hertfordshire Amwell NR 19:25
    one then flew south
    20:37 04/04 Western Osprey Manchester, Greater Wigan Flashes LNR 18:20
    one flew north over Scotman's Flash
    21:39 04/04 Western Osprey West Yorkshire Silsden 11:40
    one flew north