August is the month when we've seen the Loch Arkaig ospreys depart on their journey south. We've enjoyed watching them this year - the wonderful parenting skills of Aila and Louis, and the antics of their 3 chicks, Captain, Vera and Doddie.
Mary GK did an absolutely wonderful video summarising the 2020 season. Thank you so much Mary! And here is Geemeff's great compilation, thank you!
2020 last dates:
Doddie JJ6 was last seen at the nest on Saturday 15th August 2020
Aila was last seen on Saturday 22nd August 2020
Captain JJ7 was last seen on Sunday 23rd August 2020
Vera JJ8 was last seen on Saturday 5 September.
An unidentified osprey was seen off camera on Sunday 6 September eating a fish. This could well have been Louis, having arrived and found no Vera around to feed.
Doddie JJ6 was videod and photographed fishing for over a fortnight at Avalon Marshes in Somerset
Link to July 2020 thread
Link to Youtube channel
Link to Woodland Trust Loch Arkaig page/webcam feed
The jet fighter
13.05 ENS
© The Woodland Trust Loch Arkaig OP
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
SheilaFE said:13.40 JJ8 landed, calling, prancing a bit, looking around the nest for any dropped morsels. She found a scrap - rather than the fish tail - and tucked in.
She is now eating the tail that was left from the 09.52 fish. Ian
A changed bird from last week when we were all worried!
(c) WT Loch Arkaig
SheilaFE said:
It would be excellent if Mary were to add their departure dates to her first post on this thread - for posterity and for those of us (me) who easily forgets!
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Sheila - It was Korky who started this thread.
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Thank you very much for the 2018 info, especially Ian. So both last seen on the nest 17th August, and one last seen in the area 2nd September but we don't know which one. ("LizB saw both Louis & Aila on 17 August and the last reported sighting of any bird was 2 September".)
2019 last sighting dates on the nest were Aila13th August, Mallie 20th August, Louis 5th September and Rannoch 6th September.
Slo-Mo: RAF Typhoon jet flypast
MaryGK said:
My hand is poised, unlike the rest of me. I'll add in 2018 and 2019 dates now insofar as we know them (thanks Ian and Geemeff) but 2020 dates will have to wait for The Official Pronouncements. If, as in 2019, two ospreys don't depart until September, all this wonderful information will have to be rolled into a new thread or I could just alter the title of this one?