Some history of the BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS.
It is a SWT Nature Reserve near Forfar, Angus, Scotland. There is no webcam on the nest, and there is no Visitor Centre, only a small Hide with limited car parking spaces.
MALE - GREEN BF - RINGED HADDO 11 JULY 2004 - FIRST SEEN AT BALGAVIES IN 2008
ONE OF DARREN'S LAST PHOTOS OF GREEN BF FROM 2018
FEMALE - WHITE UF - RINGED CLUNIE CASTLE 9 JULY 2009 - RING NUMBER 1428309 (SHE DID NOT RETURN TO THE NEST IN 2017)
Remembering the lovely WHITE UF
FEMALE - UNRINGED - OCCUPIED THE NEST IN 2017 - and produced a brood of three.
BLUE YD - RUNG AND SATELLITE TAGGED BY K. BROCKIE AND ROY DENNIS 17 JULY 2012
He has been sighted several times in the Eden Estuary and also Balgavies in the last few years
ALL SUBSEQUENT BROODS HAVE NOT BEEN RINGED.
LINK TO BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS 2018
LINK TO BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS 2017
LINK TO BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS 2016
LINK TO BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS 2015
LINK TO BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS 2014
LATEST POST FROM BALGAVIES LOCH OSPREYS FACEBOOK PAGE - CHANCE TO GUESS DATES OF ARRIVAL OF GREEN BF AND MRS GREEN BF
ANOTHER SNIPPET OF INFORMATION THAT CAME TO LIGHT LAST YEAR WAS.....
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Thank you Mary for starting the thread on Balgavies as usual. Hope I can get there soon and meet the Balgavies family.
IMAGICAT
scylla said:Good morning, MARY :-* Thank you for this thread, which I probably will be reduced to catching up with once in a while. I was thinking of you yesterday while trying to tart up a snap. The Balgavies "real life" photos put our cam snaps to shame, I'm going to use BlueYD for wallpaper on a netbook, I love it. xxx
A good choice for your wallpaper Scylla LOL.... I hope Blue YD is sighted again this year, preferably at a nest somewhere, I'd like to think he will be breeding by now.
PS: What a palaver this is trying to get RF, only by editing original post. It is a draconian upgrade this LOL..... Oh well just have to get on with it, put it this way when EJ arrives back I will be more than delighted to put up with these small annoyances as being able to see her on the webcam will be my most thrilling moment of 2019.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
LATEST FROM BALGAVIES FACEBOOK PAGE
Some Kingfisher photos Darren has taken.... all fabulous too!
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One of Darren's photos also published at BBC website, "your pictures of Scotland: 8 - 15 March". He has strong opponent this time, the second picture in the sequence with a kingfisher catching a fish below water is absolutely not to be missed.
Thank You for the link Roberto, have to say that underwater photo of the kingfisher is magnificent, as are a lot of the others too.
You don't miss much do you
Darren has been to Balgavies today - No OSPREYS yet
HERE IS A LINK TO HIS REPORT
Two photos taken at Montrose Basin
and another of his brilliant Kingfisher photos - hopefully it will be Ospreys soon