Osprey Sightings 2019

El Hondo
5th January Hondo North Gate

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

  • 12:57 03/05 Western Osprey Gloucestershire Slimbridge WWT 12:50
    flew downriver past Middle Point]]

    13:13 03/05 Western Osprey Cambridgeshire Grafham Water 13:06
    flew south over dam; also five Arctic Terns

    13:27 03/05 Western Osprey Bedfordshire Wyboston GPs
    flew over A1 towards lakes 
    14:13 03/05 Western Osprey London East India Dock Basin NR 13:20
    flew northwest

    14:31 03/05 Western Osprey Suffolk Minsmere RSPB
    again mid-afternoon

    17:43 03/05 Western Osprey Northamptonshire Titchmarsh NR
    one again over late morning 
    17:59 03/05 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Hatfield Moors 17:55
    one over New Porter's at 17:55 
    19:05 03/05 Western Osprey Gloucestershire Purton 12:00
    flew south over canal at midday

  • 07:48 04/05 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Hatfield Moors
    one at east end near Tunnel Pits
    08:12 04/05 Western Osprey Northamptonshire Pitsford Reservoir
    one again this morning

    10:15 04/05 Western Osprey Hampshire Weston 08:50
    flew towards Calshot over Weston Shore 
    10:50 04/05 Western Osprey Nottinghamshire Clumber Park 07:55
    one over main lake then flew south; also two Arctic Terns flew northeast

    13:50 04/05 Western Osprey Northamptonshire Hollowell Reservoir 09:20
    still this morning

    16:44 04/05 Western Osprey Suffolk Hazlewood Marshes SWT 16:30
    flew towards Snape 
    17:03 04/05 Western Osprey Northamptonshire Pitsford Reservoir 17:00
    flew over causeway towards dam

    21:24 04/05 Western Osprey Dorset Abbotsbury Swannery
    one this evening

  • 10:25 05/05 Western Osprey Suffolk Martlesham Creek 10:16
    one flew over

    10:58 05/05 Western Osprey Hertfordshire Amwell NR 10:45
    one high south over viewpoint 
    11:07 05/05 Western Osprey Waterford Youghal Bridge 10:55
    one over lower Blackwater Estuary

    13:07 05/05 Western Osprey Northamptonshire Titchmarsh NR
    one this morning

    13:32 05/05 Western Osprey Waterford Youghal Bridge
    two over lower Blackwater Estuary

    15:30 05/05 Western Osprey Dorset Christchurch Harbour
    flew into harbour at c12:45 carrying a fish being mobbed then flew north and inland over Mudeford area 

    20:29 05/05 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Thorne Moors NNR
    one today; also the male Red-footed Falcon was still present on Friday 3rd May

  • 07:24 06/05 Western Osprey Worcestershire Camp Lane Pools, Grimley 05/05
    flew north early afternoon yesterday

    10:47 06/05 Western Osprey Isles of Scilly Annet
    one flew over late morning 
    12:35 06/05 Western Osprey West Yorkshire St. Aidan's RSPB (Swillington Ings) 12:30
    one over main lake then flew over Lowther
    12:48 06/05 Western Osprey Lancashire Morecambe
    off Stone Jetty; also 1st-summer Little Gull 
    13:37 06/05 Western Osprey Kent Oare Marshes NR 11:50
    again flew north over East Flood
    18:41 06/05 Western Osprey Essex Braintree 17:55

    one flew north over A120 just west of Braintree 

    19:40 06/05 Western Osprey Essex Tollesbury
    flew inland over estuary 
    19:47 06/05 Western Osprey South Yorkshire Thorne Moors NNR
    one

    22:38 06/05 Western Osprey Leicestershire and Rutland Swithland Reservoir
    one flew towards Quorn this evening

  • Waterford bird is ringed
    06:46 07/05 Western Osprey Norfolk Blakeney Point 05:40
    one flew west early morning
    07:09 07/05 Western Osprey Waterford Villierstown 06/05
    blue-ringed bird still yesterday

    08:43 07/05 Western Osprey West Sussex Bosham 08:40
    one circling over fields near Hoe Lane, mobbed by European Herring Gull

    08:49 07/05 Western Osprey Norfolk Titchwell RSPB 08:47
    one circling over

    09:45 07/05 Western Osprey Devon Skern, Northam Burrows CP
    one at high tide this morning

    11:00 07/05 Western Osprey Devon Isley Marsh RSPB 10:00
    one flew towards Home Farm Marsh with fish 
    11:21 07/05 Western Osprey Norfolk Horsey 10:56
    one flew north from Winterton Dunes and over Horsey Corner

    13:07 07/05 Western Osprey West Sussex Thorney Island 09:00
    one flew over Great Deeps mid-morning

    13:56 07/05 Western Osprey Norfolk Blakeney Point 13:45
    one flew west 
    14:10 07/05 Western Osprey Cambridgeshire Kingfishers Bridge NR
    one flew west mid-afternoon 
    14:36 07/05 Western Osprey Norfolk Burnham Norton 14:30
    one circling over marsh and heading west

    15:25 07/05 Western Osprey Norfolk Titchwell RSPB 14:55
    one flew west mid-afternoon then headed inland

    16:02 07/05 Western Osprey Northumberland Low Newton-by-the-Sea 15:59
    one lingering over Low Newton scrapes

    16:42 07/05 Western Osprey Ceredigion Tanybwlch
    one flew north this morning

    18:11 07/05 Western Osprey Hampshire Fleet Pond 17:55
    one flew northwest

    19:35 07/05 Western Osprey Derbyshire Mapperley Park
    one at Mapperley Reservoir

    20:01 07/05 Western Osprey Durham Whitburn Coastal Park
    one flew north this evening

  • Definitely PF but there is no record of any PF's on UK Ospreys.