Osprey chat thread.
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Richard B
Have noticed that one nest escaped us - Roudsea Wood! Thanks to Alan Petrie for advising on the LDOP thread of the ringing details of three males - 295, 296 and 297 .
I've updated the Ringing List at the beginning of the thread which now hopefully is complete for the public nests we know of and report on.
The new totals are 49 ringed chicks - 23 male and 26 female.
Two BBC items on osprey - one on the Gwash River/Horn Mill ospreys and the other a BBC Sounds programme with Roy Dennis. I don't know when the latter was made, but it isn't recent - six nests in England he says!! He refers to Logie who was the female that brought me into ospreys with World on the Move. It must be 2008 I think because they talk about her return journey and that Morven had tried, unsuccessfully, to take over her nest.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
An interesting newspaper article, which by definition might be correct or may not! An Australian publication about Australian ospreys.
SheilaFE said:Two BBC items on osprey - one on the Gwash River/Horn Mill ospreys and the other a BBC Sounds programme with Roy Dennis. I don't know when the latter was made, but it isn't recent - six nests in England he says!! He refers to Logie who was the female that brought me into ospreys with World on the Move. It must be 2008 I think because they talk about her return journey and that Morven had tried, unsuccessfully, to take over her nest.
Thinking about this- I don't think there were as many as six nests in England in 2008. There were just two in Rutland that year 03(97) and 05(00) at Site B and 08(97) and 5N(04) in Manton Bay. Then there was the Bassenthwaite nest in the Lake District. I'm not sure when nesting started at Esthwaite but I think the first pair were half siblings from Bassenthwaite hatched in 2006 and 2007 which would make 2008 too early. Glaslyn was the only known nest in Wales.
In 2009 there were 4 nests at Rutland.
It is possible that Roy Dennis knows of nests not in the public domain.
Hilary J
Interesting thought, Hilary. From Kielder blogs - "2018 was the 10th successive year of Ospreys breeding in Kielder Forest", which suggests they had at least one nest then, but I'm not sure who. YA hatched in 2007 so it wasn't him! Yellow 37 was "found to be nesting at KIelder in 2013". Both of course hatched at Glaslyn.