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
ChrisyB mentioned this on yesterday's Update, but will bring it over here.........
The younger of the Bassenthwaite chicks, White 11, left home on Tuesday 24th and spent his first night just SE of Nantwich, Cheshire.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
A compatible sighting was logged on Birdguides late Wednesday morning at The Wrekin, Shropshire - if that's him, the obvious onward route would be south down the Severn valley.It's interesting to see juveniles starting from a different point.
Thanks SueC : I guess 11 and 12 will be taking up a lot of our attention in the next few weeks. It is interesting that 11 left first as 12 was the more aggressive and fiesty of the two. Weather is atrocious here today. Its been raining for 19 hours so I hope they dont pass this way.
Alan Surely no sensible osprey would have been flying through the south of England last evening? It has been pouring down.
Tiger Signature
It's a lovely sunny day today in the Lakes, nice yesterday too. Good for setting off on miration...
Not too bad here in the northwest, although dull and cool. We have been having our share of wind and rain lately but it does seem to be moving further south.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Message from Rob Bierregaard:
Something has happened at the University server where our Osprey webpage is maintained such that when you try to log in, you are asked for a password. I'm down in Brazil so I've asked our computer jockeys to look into it.
Not sure whether to post this here or 'other nests' - I went to Bassenthwaite again today, I could not resist as such a nice day! At the lower view point could be seen the male and a juve each on a post. Not far from the male at the water edge was a buzzard which was eating something, maybe a goose? we could not really see but it must have been quite large as it was there for over 2 hours.The male went and dived at it about 6 times but the buzzard took no notice! Then he had a few hovers over the shallows but unfortunately did not go for a fish, and flew off to the left, the juve following a bit later.
I will miss going to see them it's a nice trip out, and interesting too. At least we can see the tracking.
ChrisyB said: No sure whether to post this here or 'other nests' - I went to Bassenthwaite again today, I could not resist as such a nice day! At the lower view point could be seen the male and a juve each on a post. Not far from the male at the water edge was a buzzard which was eating something, maybe a goose? we could not really see but it must have been quite large as it was there for over 2 hours.The male went and dived at it about 6 times but the buzzard took no notice! Then he had a few hovers over the shallows but unfortunately did not go for a fish, and flew off to the left, the juve following a bit later. I will miss going to see them it's a nice trip out, and interesting too. At least we can see the tracking.
No sure whether to post this here or 'other nests' - I went to Bassenthwaite again today, I could not resist as such a nice day! At the lower view point could be seen the male and a juve each on a post. Not far from the male at the water edge was a buzzard which was eating something, maybe a goose? we could not really see but it must have been quite large as it was there for over 2 hours.The male went and dived at it about 6 times but the buzzard took no notice! Then he had a few hovers over the shallows but unfortunately did not go for a fish, and flew off to the left, the juve following a bit later.
Sounds great :)
I keep promising myself I will go as I haven't been to Bassenthwaite since they moved to the new nest. Do you get fairly close views or all distant?
ChloeB - From the Dodd lower view point you see them on the marsh and fence posts, as they also used to do when the nest was on the other side. Then there is the newer upper view point half a mile farther up, where the nest is about on the same level as the viewer and a similar distance away as the LotL and LG, ie you do need binocs and the good telescopes they have there. A lot better view than of the previous nest!
Thank you Chrisy. In that case I definitely will have a drive up there next year.