The Poole Harbour Translocation Thread for 2018-2019

Thank you Alison. That really is a wonderful piece of writing. You capture the whole experience wonderfully. Almost as if we are following you. 

Indeed! Maybe we could all come along and help defend you from the bullocks?

Thanks all.

You'd be very welcome, Korky! They're very placid really, but I'm just not a cow person (if you see what I mean).

A lovely update from a shift as a volunteer. It all sounds so exciting and such a wonderful, exciting thing to be privileged to being involved in. Look forward to reading more.

Here is an account of the Andalucia translocation by Roy Dennis. He recounts how a pair of unringed birds were stimulated to nest even know they were not part of the translocation. 

There was excitement in 2005 when the first ospreys started to breed. The first pair comprised a German male and a Scottish female and they have bred each year to 2012. A pair of unringed ospreys built a nest that year but they were not our young birds. It was believed that they had been stimulated into breeding in the areas because of their interactions with the ten young ospreys released the previous autumn. Their eggs failed to hatch but were substituted with two small young from Germany, which they reared.

See   here

Will we see something similar at Poole? 

As I recall the ospreys were given a buzzard chick to foster while they were waiting for the chicks from Germany.  It was then returned to its own parents but I have always wondered if there is a slightly confused buzzard in Spain wondering why nothing tastes like the meals it had when it was little.

HilaryJ said:

As I recall the ospreys were given a buzzard chick to foster while they were waiting for the chicks from Germany.  It was then returned to its own parents but I have always wondered if there is a slightly confused buzzard in Spain wondering why nothing tastes like the meals it had when it was little.

I like that story! 

At last, official confirmation of what I've been dying to tell you!

Fledging tweet

Wonderful news Alison!