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
Tiger after such good news now comes the bad. Hate to think of any osprey being lost at sea. Puts Deshar back in my thoughts.
Margobird
Hazel b said: Sad new from Rob Bierregaard. I looks as if Penelope has been lost at sea!
Sad new from Rob Bierregaard. I looks as if Penelope has been lost at sea!
Oh, heartbreaking news :(
my photos in flickr
Update from Bassenthwaite on #11:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Erika reaches her wintering place on the Ar Rahad river in Sudan:
http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/index.php?lang=en
I found these films of an osprey family, shot and narrated by Simon King, as a result of browsing through the Autumnwatch material on the BBC site. I can't remember them being posted in the LG Forum before.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Osprey#intro
Why am I posting them on this thread? The male's ring, Green SM, reminded me of this, on Roy Dennis' site:
"The female has nested at this nest since 2001 and has regularly reared 2 or 3 early young. Her normal mate was green SM, and in 2008 Simon King featured them in the BBC Programme Springwatch. This spring the old male SM failed to return and his mate waited until May for a new male to arrive and take his place - the reason for the late brood."
So this is footage of the nest where Rothiemurchus was raised, and the female is his mother, with her previous mate.
Sue C Oh that is a great piece of research. I remember that Springwatch well.
Tiger Signature
Yes I remember that too. There was some great footage of the nest. Thanks Sue!
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Sue C good afternoon and thanks for the link to the Simon King feature.
Nimrod and Talisman have restarted their migrations:
http://www.roydennis.org/
Unknown said: Nimrod and Talisman have restarted their migrations: http://www.roydennis.org/
Good morning Alan and thanks for the above.