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
Tiger I've tried reconstructing 12's route to date from the reports and it looks like this:
Aug 27 Bassenthwaite to Shrewsbury
Aug 28 St Lo, Manche, France
Aug 29 E of La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime
Aug 30 ? somewhere in Landes departement?
Aug 31 W of Zaragoza
Aug 1 ? travelling south through Spain?
Sep 2-3 Huelva nr Cadiz, sthn Spain
Sep 4 Reaches Africa near Casablanca, Morocco
Sep 5 Morocco coast near Agadir
Sep 6 El M’sied, Morocco
So he could at least have had fishing opportunities on the W coast of France, at Huelva and before he left the coast of Morocco, though it's impossible to know how successful he was. I think, the Lake District team are on the same "roller coaster" ride that we're familiar with!
If these were adults and therefore expert fishernen there would be no need to worry. It is because they are inexperienced juves that it becomes a bit (a lot) hair-raising :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
It seems that these young birds learn the best route by gambling with their lives. In the USA Penelope one of the few young ospreys ever to be tracked on a second migration shows that she chooses a safer route second time around. See http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/maps%202010/Penelope-2010.htm
Tiger Signature
One of the Kawartha Lakes ospreys is now in South Carolina. See http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
Update from Roy on Morven - still in Caithness.
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=194&sid=116
Update from Bassenthwaite:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Wow. These birds never cease to fascinate! There is no doubt that they are now committed to the desert but it seems that 11 has a better draw than 12.
Oh dear, I think that the Lake District team are definitely new to this satellite tracking. They seem to be really concerned about 12 plodding on through the deserts of Mauritania (which lots of birds do, but all get through eventually), but seem delighted that 11 has reached the "raptor graveyard" of Cap Blanc!
The problem with the peninsular of Cap Blanc is illustrated by Rothie's visit last year - unless you double back on yourself and follow the coast (which 11 has not shown a propensity to do) then you end up launching yourself off into the ocean and end up 120km out in the Atlantic, like Rothie:
Mind you, Rothie is living proof that it can be done and I'm wishing 11 all the luck in the coming days.
Sandy Yes, I also realised that 11 had passed Dahkla and was in fact at Cap Blanc - and remembered this page from the previous Rutland Water site. As you say, fingers crossed.......
http://www.ospreys.org.uk/Questions/Question%20African%20Coast.htm
12 is following the route of Rothes, Mallachie and many others at this point - in fact his most recent position is on a rock escarpment where Rothes roosted on Sep 28 last year.
Talisman spotted by Roy in Findhorn Bay:
http://www.roydennis.org/index.asp?id=11