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
Spey decides against long Med. crossing:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
Unknown said: Lake District update: Whereas 11 prefers the coast north of Nouakchott, 12 is patrolling the coast to the south of Nouakchott: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Lake District update: Whereas 11 prefers the coast north of Nouakchott, 12 is patrolling the coast to the south of Nouakchott:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Thanks for that, Alan. Really interesting how similar the two brothers' migration has been. Will they stay where they are and (like Morven) roost in the desert scrub, and fish off the coast? My guess is that one, or both, will eventually make it further South into the wetlands proper. After such a relentless migration from both of them I'm just glad that they're taking their time and, hopefully, feeding themselves up.
Sandy thanks for all the tracking information. I am so behind with all the happenings so your posts keep me up to date.
Margobird
Update from Bassenthwaite, 11 seems settled on the Mauritanian coast:
Update from Rob Bierregaard
I'm away from Map Central, so no maps for a while, but here's the latest update:North Fork Bob is finally heading south and is now around Philly, Mr. Hannah is making up for lost time and made a fast trip to Northern Florida, where he was not far from his Nantucket neighbor, Mr. Hannah, in mid Florida. Thatch was in Miami a couple of days ago. Penelope is making us sort of nervous hanging out in the D.R., although this looks like as safe a place as she could be there, hanging around a small river (no surprise) in a fairly sparsely populated area.The weather has been good for migrating (north winds) for the past few days with Hurricane Igor off the coast, so it's likely that our last four holdouts (Belle, Neale, Gunny, and Sanford) are likely to have started south. Tomorrow these four birds will report in for the first time in 3 days, so they may already be moving south.Rob Bierregaardhttp://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/bierregaardTwitter at: "ospreytrax"
NB. Rob has a device on his site to show where people visit his site are from. Interestingly there are quite a few dots in South America.
Tiger Signature
Roys individual birds all updated to 21/09. All doing well. Talisman not left yet:http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/
Spey in Africa:
Red 8T progressing well through Mauritania:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=200&sid=171
Thanks Sandy for update re Spey so relieved safe arrival in Africa. Also thanks for the news about Red 8T. Looking good at the moment.
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: