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
Good to know they are doing well but could do with using brighter colours on the update maps couldn't they?
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Yes, orange lines on an orange desert are not the best choice.......?
Nimrod in France:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=202&sid=84
Red 8T in Africa:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=200&sid=171
ChrisyB said: Yes, orange lines on an orange desert are not the best choice.......?
LOL Chloe & Chrisy. Not only is orange not a great choice in a desert, none of the points are marked which makes it really difficult to actually follow their routes. Good to know they've finally put the brakes on, however, and are hopefully refuelling.
Morven spotted en route:
"15 September 2010
I received an email late tonight from Paul Noakes
"Dear Roy, A friend of mine today saw an Osprey with a satellite transmitter and I guess it must have been one of yours. It was at Burgh Castle at the east end of Breydon Water, Norfolk at 3pm 15/9/10 and appeared to be heading south-east. We would be very interested to hear if it tallies up with one of your birds.""
Burgh Castle is 12 miles north of where Morven roosted last night so the report fits with her travelling through Suffolk. Thanks Paul. "
Interesting blog about 94 from Glaslyn. See http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/glaslynospreys/
Interesting.
Tiger Signature
Hazel b said: Interesting blog about 94 from Glaslyn. See http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/glaslynospreys/ Interesting.
Fascinating; don’t you wish they’d got satellite tracking for the Glaslyn birds. From the direction he’s heading it’s going to take a massive change in direction to get him to the West Coast of Africa, it would have been really interesting to discover if he went to East or Central Africa instead.
Unknown said: Fascinating; don’t you wish they’d got satellite tracking for the Glaslyn birds. From the direction he’s heading it’s going to take a massive change in direction to get him to the West Coast of Africa, it would have been really interesting to discover if he went to East or Central Africa instead.
It is fascinating and it would be great have a track. I am reminded of S8H from 2001. See http://www.ospreys.org.uk/satresultsS8H.html
Sadly it did not work out well for S8H but then that is the fate of a lot of juves.
Kawartha Lakes pair update:
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
Slow flight through Belgium for Spey:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198