This thread replaces Satellite Tracked Ospreys March-August 2010
It has been set up to follow the Autumn 2010 migration of ospreys tracked by satellite, other than those from Loch Garten. Comments about the travels of Rothes, hatched at Loch Garten in 2009, should be posted on the “Tracking Rothes and Mallachie” thread: http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/groups/lochgartenospreys/forum/t/3440.aspx
UK Organisations known to be currently tracking ospreys, and the birds involved, are as follows:
Roy Dennis, Highland Foundation for Wildlife – Scotland
Website: http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp
Beatrice
Adult female, hatched 2000, tagged 2008, ring Green 5B. Beatrice moved to a new nest in East Moray in Spring 2010, as her previous mate did not return from migration. On all of her tracked migrations, she has taken a stopover on the River Adour, near Dax in the Landes department of SW France. Her wintering site is on the Guadiaro river in southern Spain, NE of Gibraltar.
Morven
Adult female, hatched 2003, tagged 2008, ring White PE. Morven’s nest site is near Forres, Moray (with Talisman). So far, she has only taken stopovers on spring migrations, in the Villaviciosa estuary in the Asturias region of northern Spain - http://www.riadevillaviciosa.org/ . Her wintering site is the desert coast of Mauritania, north of the capital, Nouakchott.
Nimrod
Adult male, hatched 2001, tagged 2008, ring Red 7J. Nimrod’s nest site is also near Forres. He tends to take a stopover, of varying length, around the Ile d’Oleron, Charente-Maritime, western France. He winters on the Rio Cachine in Guinea Bissau.
Talisman
Adult male, hatched 1999, tagged 2009, ring Black 6R. Talisman’s nest site is near Forres, Moray (with Morven).On both his tracked migrations, he has had a stopover at the Roxo Reservoir, Alentejo, Portugal http://www.avesdeportugal.info/sitroxo.html . He winters on the Ilha de Enu, Bijagos Islands, Guinea Bissau – not far from Rothes.
Red 8T
Adult male, hatched 2001, tagged 2009, ring Red 8T. Red 8T nests in Strathspey, near the Rothiemurchus fishery. His wintering site is on the Casamanche River near Ziguinchor, southern Senegal. He doesn’t seem to do stopovers!
Rothiemurchus
Immature male hatched 2009, ring Blue AE. Hatched on Rothiemurchus Estate, near Aviemore, Highland. On his first migration south, after a narrow escape over the Atlantic, he spent 5 weeks on the Rio Paiva, Aveiro District, Portugal. He continued safely to Africa and has since spent his time exploring Senegal.
Spey
Juvenile Male, hatched 2010, ring Blue AS. Hatch site near Elgin, East Moray, Scotland.
Lake District Osprey Project, Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria, England
Project website: http://www.ospreywatch.co.uk/
Tracking reports on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Juvenile Males, hatched 2010 - elder Chick White 12 and younger White 11
Rutland Water Osprey Project
There is no current satellite tracking, but posts may occasionally refer back to the tracking which was done from 1999-2002 - here's the link to all the records:
http://www.ospreys.org.uk/satellite.html
sandy said: Update from Bassenthwaite, 12 is in France!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Update from Bassenthwaite, 12 is in France!:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
. . . And 11 is in Portugal!!!!
What an amazing sea crossing that was!!!
Sandy Thanks for the heads up on that. What amazing information we get from tagging. It is the first time we have seen No-ring's genes tagged.
Tiger Signature
Wow Sandy, thanks for that. I did check earlier. I couldn't understand the silence on news of No 11. Brilliant news.
Hi, just picked up on this thread for tracking 2010 ospreys.
Thanks for all your hard work SueC. Will look in from time to time to see what progress is being made by the ospreys.
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/
RSPB Giving Nature a Home
Erika is in Egypt!
I've included the side panel to show the best settings on the Looduskalendar map for following tours.
She left her nest in NE Estonia on 12th and started moving south on the 15th. Crossed to Turkey on the 24th and flew over the Med on the 26th. Now resting presumably, on the Nile Delta coast.
Amazing movements by the Bassenthwaite juveniles. Interesting that they actually observed no 12 leaving: "Go back to Friday afternoon (27th) on the marsh where No-ring is sitting in the ‘broccoli’ tree. 12 is perched on the fence posts but suddenly he takes off and skims over to Dad. He flies around him twice and then soars up into the air – up up until almost out of eyesight and then heads South".
Looking at the route that No 11 took it's not surprising that there was a delay in posting the information... Phew !
Thanks for the info on Erika, Sue. So pleased that she has managed to reach Africa safely.
It's amazing that the start of so many migrations have been observed this year. One thing that we'll probably never understand is just what triggers the juveniles to decide "I'm off" and suddenly fly into the unknown.
Sandy: Your comment reminded me about the statement by Debbie on the current main blog.......
"At 10.20, the middle juvenile left the nest and started to soar, circling ever higher, until it was a tiny dot. Surely it must be on it’s way!"
This is probably one of the few 'decision points' that have been witnessed. Minutes earlier Middle had been calling for food, then the soaring started, up and up to, let's guess, 500 to1000 metres. As far as we know this 'soaring' had not been evident before for this bird. At a great height for maybe the first time, what systems kicked in, I wonder. Altitude, position of the sun, wind direction, temperature, fuel on board, thermals or lack of thermals, just like the captain on an airliner preparing for his route. Any other birds in view? No, all clear for migration, then off!
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Latest positions of 11 and 12: