Continued from here
This is the thread which will cover the second year of the osprey translocation to Poole
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Can just imagine it ALISON Thank you As Mary says, you will never forget this experience When is your next shift? You will be on tenter hooks having to wait
Hi Patily. Next shift is 6am! on Wednesday, but I am quite busy between now and then so the time should pass quickly.
Thanks ALISON When the time comes I hope you will be there to see at least some of them fledge
A never to be forgotten moment Alison. Enjoy.
Birdies LG DU update.
Ooooh how wonderful! You are going to have such a memorable time, with hopefully, many tales to be told when the time is right.
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Alison, Thanks so much for posting. I imagine I am not the only one who will be enjoying your shifts from a distance, thanks to your comments!
Kind regards, Ann
No one else was available for the early shift today so I put my hand up and then did it on my own! Couldn’t let them go without breakfast. I can’t tell you how incredible it is to be within inches of these birds and actually hear them chirruping when the food flap is quickly opened and shut. All seem to be doing very well so far.
Good for you Alison and thanks for the update.
How fantastic Alison! Such a privilege, I'd be with you if I lived near, Yorkshire would be a big commute.
Your post prompted me to go the the Pool Harbour site.
What can we say…it’s not often two majorly exciting events of this magnitude take place on the same day. First and foremost we’re thrilled to announce that our 14 Osprey chicks for this years translocation safely arrived this afternoon at midday and were quickly placed into their new 5 star luxury pens at a secret location within the harbour where our team will now feed and monitor them for 2-3 weeks before releasing them again back out into the harbour. We’d like to say a huge thank you to numerous folk including Jason Fathers at Wildlife Windows who put in place all the infrastructure for the project which was quite a task we can tell you! Poole based fresh fish supplier Seafresh who have again kindly agreed to supply fish to our project to make sure the birds get the best possible start here in Poole. Also Roy Dennis and Tim Mackrill from the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation who were up in Scotland collecting the birds and Emily Joachim and Brittany Maxted who fed and cared for the birds whilst they were being collected. A huge thanks to those members of the public too who have supported either via donations towards the project or have sent us really kind emails of support. With 14 new birds its going to be one hell of a season but we have a great team behind us so we look forward to updating you on the project along the way. Here is the press release we sent out today which gives a fuller overview of the project – READ HERE.
Osprey chick 006 being placed into its new pen by Tim Mackrill