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 reaches River Niger tributary:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198#thumb
Great news Sandy. Now we can relax a bit.
All good news indeed! Phew! :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Unknown said: Great news Sandy. Now we can relax a bit.
Yes, Alan - and hopefully so can he!
Spey's had a difficult and quite unusual migration so far, so it will be really interesting to see what he does next. In the meantime I bet he's relieved to find a stretch of water again - not only for the chance to catch fish but also to cool off a bit. He's crossed a huge expanse of proper Saharan desert, encountering sand storms and daytime temperatures in the 40's so to come across fresh water must be such a relief.
I'd like to see him follow the river downstream and feed up a bit before he decides to move on, but I get the feeling that at some point in the future he'll make his way westwards to the more usual wintering grounds of Senegal, Gambia or Guinea Bissau.
I wonder if Spey will do what T01 did in 2000 ? See migration of T01
Tiger Signature
Seems he climbed to a decent altitude to avoid the worst of it, sensible youngster. He deserves to succeed.
After a bit of googling, I've discovered that the green area Spey has reached is not in fact a river. It's a vast irrigation project, known as the Office du Niger after the body which created it in the French colonial period, and still runs it today. It takes water from the Niger river, rather than feeding it, and is one of Mali's main rice growing areas. I haven't been able to find out, how fishy it might be.
This is the best version I've found so far, of its history: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/officeduniger.htm
Spey living on tributary of the Niger river:http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
Jukka : Latest position in Poland:
Lake District brothers 11(JR) and 12(SV) now only approximately 50 miles apart in southern Mauritania:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/