Continued from here
This is the thread which will cover the second year of the osprey translocation to Poole
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Thank you for the update Alison. Sounds a lovely morning and well worth the alarm call!
Birdies LG DU update.
Hazel b said: It always seems counter intuitive to have more males than females. After all the females are less likely to return to Poole so in reality you need more females than males. This was a mistake they made at Rutland and it ended up with single males not having the opportunity to breed. They also have a mainly male population at Urdaibai.
It always seems counter intuitive to have more males than females. After all the females are less likely to return to Poole so in reality you need more females than males.
This was a mistake they made at Rutland and it ended up with single males not having the opportunity to breed.
They also have a mainly male population at Urdaibai.
We have had a single female here pretty much all summer, CJ7, so hopefully she will return again next year and attract a male.
CJ7 was around Poole at the end of last summer when the translocated birds were released from the pens and she interacted with them and stayed for about 10 days I think, then returned this year.
Richard B
Unknown said: I understand that there are thought to be 10 males and four females.
I understand that there are thought to be 10 males and four females.
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I hope 007 is behaving himself.
How ironic if the first male to breed is 007, what a lady killer. lol
It is no great surprise that CJ7 is hanging around Poole. Ospreys seem to have an extreme reluctance to set up a nest where there is no current breeding. I think that taboo may have been broken at Poole by the appearance of juveniles in 2017.
Something similar happened at both the Andalucia and Portugal translocations.
At Rutland in 2005 (I think) one of the visiting females actually brought fish to the juveniles. The males did not take kindly to the juveniles with 8 (97) being one of the worst offenders.
I photographed another bird last weekend, which was unringed and looked like a female. It has also been about for a while.
Tiger
'This is a pair of orphans, 7R and 7S, one female and one male.
...There were now 10 Osprey chicks being held in the pens on Lax Hill.' Rutland 2005
The 2nd male and 11th chick was a singleton orphan from another nest. He was ringed as Yellow 33.
Hilary J
HilaryJ said: Tiger 'This is a pair of orphans, 7R and 7S, one female and one male. ...There were now 10 Osprey chicks being held in the pens on Lax Hill.' Rutland 2005 The 2nd male and 11th chick was a singleton orphan from another nest. He was ringed as Yellow 33.
However, yesterday their number was swelled as we were finally able to release the last chick. This one, given the ring number 33, was very much younger than all the others having been taken from a nest in Scotland where a pair of first-time breeding adults had laid eggs very late indeed in the season.
So it was 7R and 7S belonged to Orange VS and Green 7B
Here is the latest from Roy Dennis on this years translocation
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Thank you Richard.
Not too much to report at the moment. All seems to be going well. The two oldest are managing to 'fly' a few feet from 'nest' to a log perch (inside their pen).