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
Morven seems to be at the same reservoir visited by S06 in 1999. See http://www.ospreys.org.uk/satresultsS06.html
Tiger Signature
Unknown said: Morven at a stop over near the Serena reservoir in Spain: http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=201&sid=116 Looks like Spey has found a nice spot near the Barrage El Wahda reservoir in Morocco: http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
Morven at a stop over near the Serena reservoir in Spain:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=201&sid=116
Looks like Spey has found a nice spot near the Barrage El Wahda reservoir in Morocco:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
Good morning Alan and thanks for news of above. Doing well so far.
Margobird
After 2 weeks away, so many fascinating migrations to catch up on!
Bassenthwaite chick 12 (I do wish they had named them) has been on a tour across the Senegal river & through Djoudj NP - but returned to the Mauritania coast:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Unknown said: After 2 weeks away, so many fascinating migrations to catch up on! Bassenthwaite chick 12 (I do wish they had named them) has been on a tour across the Senegal river & through Djoudj NP - but returned to the Mauritania coast: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
I agree. Maybe we should name them ourselves?
12 was nicknamed Sid Vicious after drawing blood from Roy Dennis when he was being ringed. I watched the DVD of the ringing and tagging at Whinlatter when we visited in July.
Still no word on #11, though. :-((
Red 8T makes it to Senegal:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=200&sid=171
It's interesting that Roy thinks that Red 8T's progress South may have been interrupted by bad weather. I wonder if this could have influenced #12 as well in doubling back to the Mauritanian coast?
BTW when I said no word on #11 I was looking at the date of his last point being 20th September, looking again I see the latest point for #12 is also the 20th, not exactly breaking news. It's a shame that the information about the two Bassenthwaite youngsters' journeys has been rather sporadic and slow. Parts of the routes still haven't been posted - for example, #11 was at Cap Blanc for a while and then suddenly appeared further down the coast in Mauritania.
Unknown said: 12 was nicknamed Sid Vicious after drawing blood from Roy Dennis when he was being ringed. I watched the DVD of the ringing and tagging at Whinlatter when we visited in July.
So how about Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten then? :))
News of the Kawartha Lake ospreys. One has reached South America while the other is in Cuba. See http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
The site is also having a photo contest. See http://www.friendsoftheosprey.org/contest.html
Just looked at those competition photos and love no. 2 ! Ospreys can look so magnificent but sometimes so comical ! They are the best !