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
What a relief !!! that should be the worst over, hopefully....
Glad to hear that both birds are alive and well!
Tiger Signature
Update from Rob Bierregaard
The Cape Henlopen Hawk Watch has had a couple of days with counts over 100, so the young and males are now moving south. Most of the females have probably already made it through to S. A.Three of our birds are moving. Actually 4 if we include Buck, our South Carolina young from '09, who surprised us by moving his bivouac down in Venezuela.Sr. Bones from Nantucket is our first adult to head south. Thatch (DE) is the first young to take the plunge. Belle's move north early in the month was a false alarm.On the Migration page I've indicated for each bird when the latest updates were posted for their maps. Especially interesting this time around are Penelope (always doing something exciting) and Thatch.Enjoyhttp://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm
Just read the Bassenthwaite update. What a relief! Shame the map hasn't been updated though. Still, at least we know they are ok :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Latest from Roy, Morven and Nimrod are off:
http://www.roydennis.org/
Thanks, Alan. What an unusual start to his migration from Nimrod.
Fantastic news Alan. Nimrod never ceases to amaze does he? You would think he would know the way by now! I guess he will thrill us all over the next few weeks with his amazing feats.
Well, what can I say about Nimrod...except WOW! Exhibitionist! :)
More likely got blown off course by strong westerlies.
With Morven seemingly starting off that means that Talisman, for the second year in succession, is the last of the tracked ospreys to leave.
Red 8T is progressing well down through Spain, does he ever rest?
Today's UK wind map from http://www.xcweather.co.uk/