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
Unknown said: Bassenthwaite osprey 11 (Johnny Rotten) moves south towards the Senegal border: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Bassenthwaite osprey 11 (Johnny Rotten) moves south towards the Senegal border:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Thanks for that, Alan. It's good to get some relatively up to date information at last. It appears that the two brothers came agonisingly close to each other at one point.
Roy has filled in the detail of Talisman's incredible flight from Findhorn Bay to Spain:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=193&sid=164
I had a feeling that Talisman would take advantage of the strong northerly and north-easterly winds that came at the back end of last week. I didn't, however, envisage him making such an amazing journey at speeds of up to 111km/h!!! That is an incredible 69mph! Can you imagine driving down a motorway and seeing a migrating bird high in the sky keeping up with you at motorway speeds.
Latest positions for the UK ospreys (maps not to scale with each other):
Margobird, I don't like the Sid Vicious/Johnny Rotten idea either for the Bassenthwaite duo - and the project team have now gone back to calling them Big Yan and L'al Yan - think I'll stick to those.
Further east, Erika has been on a stopover on the south side of the Nile delta since early this month, while it seems Jukka has yet to make a move.
Thanks for that, Sue - it really helps to put their relative positions in context. I was having trouble visualising Spey's latest point in relation to the coastline of Morocco - doesn't look too bad at the moment.
Oh dear, spoke too soon about Spey, he's headed SE instead of SW and is in the Algerian desert:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
Sue C. I love those maps. They put things in perspective.
Sandy Spey does seem to like going south east. Not sure I have ever seen an osprey head south east in the Sahara before.
Tiger Signature
No surprise that Red 8T has reached Roxo Reservoir:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=204&sid=164
Hazel b said: Sue C. I love those maps. They put things in perspective. Sandy Spey does seem to like going south east. Not sure I have ever seen an osprey head south east in the Sahara before.
Tiger: it's not a great trait to have, is it - unless he makes an abrupt about-turn he's going to end up a long way from anywhere.
Good morning Sandy I so hope Spey will get back on the right course. Felt worried after reading Roy's blog.
Margobird
Jukka left on migration on 22/09/2010:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luomus.fi%2Felaintiede%2Fsatelliittisaakset%2Fjukka%2Fsyksy2010.htm&act=url
Latest position for Jukka in Poland as at 26/09/2010. Red line to the right shows autumn 2009 track and red line to the left shows spring 2009 track :