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
Thanks Sue C for the Springwatch clips. I love Simon King and Gordon Buchanan! I don't always see Springwatch as I am out some nights and I do get fed up with all the twitter between the interesting stuff, so thanks for putting this on. Loved the slow-mo and the one about EJ, Henry and Orange VS.
Terry in Cumbria
Unknown said: Thanks Sue C for the Springwatch clips. I love Simon King and Gordon Buchanan! I don't always see Springwatch as I am out some nights and I do get fed up with all the twitter between the interesting stuff, so thanks for putting this on. Loved the slow-mo and the one about EJ, Henry and Orange VS.
I thought that was great too.
Tiger Signature
Update from Bassenthwaite:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
(I think it's a work in progress).
Thanks Sandy. It looks like they are beginning to settle down now especially 12.
This is Erikas wintering place in Southern Sudan:
Jukka still (6th of Oct) in Poland
But maybe moving on?
my photos in flickr
Thanks Auntie.
Update on Roys birds:
Nimrod heading slowly south through Northern Spain:http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=202&sid=84Talisman migrating steadily south through Morocco and into the Sahara Desert:http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=204&sid=164Spey still on the tributary of the river Niger:http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
Jukka phoned in from western Bosnia on the night of Oct 10th/11th:
He flew over the area of Hungary affected by the toxic sludge leak - if you zoom in on Kolontar, you can see the tank very clearly.
Alan. What is up with Nimrod? He normally goes really fast. Old slow coach this year.
Tiger Nimrod was pretty slow travelling up through France & Britain this spring, if you look back.
Tiger : Nimrod is slow this year. He was at his wintering destination by 13.10 in 2009.