Poole Harbour Osprey Project MAY to end of 2020 season

scylla said:

Thank you, RICHARD!  (I thought you were AWOL  )

.........................................................

I'm never far away Scylla  

Unknown said:

Looking at the 2 pictures on the Twitter feed it really does highlight the difference between the picture quality of the webcam and the trailcam

I must say I have loved some of the views we've been getting of CJ7 on the PH nest - they've been like paintings - which of course is not the ideal.

Disappointing news, I'm afraid.

Translocation postponed

That is so sad, Alison, for the project, and for those involved. Most of all, I think it is extremely worrying that there was a high percentage of failed nests in Roy's area, mainly due to the numbers of non-returnees, to the late return of the ospreys and then the bad weather in the spring. It just goes to emphasise how vulnerable the recovering species is, even now.

We have been so lucky with most of the nests that we are privileged to be able to follow that we are unaware of the disasters elsewhere

What's more concerning is the news from Roy Dennis about the Scottish breeding population.
It's good news that the Welsh and English nests have been pretty successful.

It is sad news indeed.   The only point I would question in the BOPH report as about the bad weather in the Spring, I know in the central region we had almost two months of no rain and very sunny weather, (March and April). I also have a friend in the North West of Scotland who had similar weather, I will check with another friend who lives in the area they were mentioning in the report to see if that was in fact the case.

This has been an awful year in more ways than one, we know how many Ospreys from known nests who did not return so obviously this has also happened on nests throughout the whole country.    Would be interesting to find out if 28(10) was the only non returner from Rutland.   Do we know otherwise. 

Turned up about 1704, did some nest tidying and then sat on edge of nest looking round. Stayed for about 1/2 hour

© BofPH

Unknown said:

Disappointing news, I'm afraid.

Translocation postponed

Very sorry to read that - sympathy especially to those locally involved, including you and Richard, of course.

I don't have any footage from today (up till now) - I'm sure you would have reported any unusual behaviour, Richard, so I'm not going to record from rollback unless you say it would be highly desirable 

... Well, I'll see how I get on with other things... ;)

Very sorry to read of the postponement but even more concerned at the overall poor breeding year.

Very sad but thanks for telling us, Alison. They made the right decision, though. It would have been even more tragic if they had climbed to various nests, and any frightened, almost-ready-to-fledge chicks had leapt from the nest in a panic and crashed. Fingers crossed for good weather for both of the coming migrations, south and then back north in the spring and for a better season next year..