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
Update from Bassenthwaite:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Thanks Sandy. So it is believable that White 11 was seen over The Wrekin late Wednesday morning.
I love the way satellite tracking gets you investigating places you've never heard of, even in the UK. I couldn't resist looking into his most recent known location, where he spent all of Wednesday afternoon - but why? The positions of roads and Wenlock Edge, suggest he was just on the NE side of the town of Much Wenlock: http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=270332
The larger scale map on Geograph shows this is the site of St Milburga's Priory, founded in Saxon times and dissolved by Henry 8th: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/wenlock-priory
If you click on the OS map on the Geograph page, you get a larger scale map showing a stream and various ponds, one of which is marked "Pond Bay" in antique script. Now this is fascinating, because of a theory put forward by Roy Dennis in "A Life of Ospreys". These ponds, also known as stew ponds and just fish ponds, were kept by great houses and monasteries to provide a supply of fish for eating on Fridays. Roy suggests that the reason why ospreys were already scarce in England when records began to be kept, was that they had been persecuted from the medieval period for raiding these ponds, where the fish were easy pickings for them.
Whether the ponds contain any fish now, we may find out in the next update.........
Thanks Sandy & SueC. Latest podcast from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ospreys
Latest on Beatrice and Morven:
27th August. Beatrice settled in her winter quarters in Spain. Stan Laybourne has located Morven on the shores of Loch Calder in Caithness.
Rothes latest position as at 26/08/2010:
Thanks Alan for Rothes update at least we have to follow during the winter.
Margobird
Update from Bassenthwaite, 12 is in France!:
Thanks Sandy. 12 is very close to the track that Nethy took. Why the suspense over 11?
No idea, Alan. Can't wait to find out though!
It is good to see how they just 'go' and then the similarities and differences in the journeys. Here's hoping all goes well for both of them !