As it's nearly that time I suppose it's time to start a new Thread for the Upcoming season.
For 2020 thread click HERE
Richard B
Hazel b said:
Richard G B said:
I was just doing some reading and investigation into CJ7 and parents as i know very little about the Rutland birds.
I came across one bit saying that her parents were Blue 00/09 and Blue 06/09, both Rutland birds.
You may very well be right. I did not check it out too well.
Here you are CR7 and parents
Tiger Signature
patily said:I wonder why CJ7 is not attracting a male Aren't there supposed to be a lot of passing spreys? They can't all be "spoken for"
It's not as if she's been rejected - there are just no males visiting this nest
Trying to compensate for neglect, I've done a video covering evening of 19th to this morning - mostly extremely uneventful but the 19th evening is a little "interesting", with her "squawking" away someone and eating fish on the campost - she may have spent the night up there, she landed in the morning with remains of fish.
IMAGICAT
CJ7 has been working on the nest on 'n off all day - last time she flew up to the campost:
21:57 she was seen via cambump and heard to fly off.
It is PHILOPATRY you see and the reason why we are having a translocation. Males are normally faithful to where were hatched. Left to their own devices it would take ospreys 150 years to recolonise Britain.Translocation is a technique to fool the young males that they were hatched in places other than they really were.
But the good news is that the wait is nearly over. Hopefully some young males from the 2019 crop should be heading north soon and where will they be heading to? Poole of course.
Thanks TIGER whilst I fully understand about philopatry you do get quite a few males who "buck the trend".......like several of Mrs G's sons.....and I thought perhaps one or two might have passed over CJ7's nest
If she does manage to attract a young translocated male this year we could have a repeat of the situation with her last beau and she'll miss the oppoetunity to breed this year
C Poole Harbour OP
It was windy late last night (and still sounds quite breezy now):
CJ7 arrived on the campost @ 05:29, down onto the nest @ 05:47, since when she's been on more than off.
Tail feather on the way out:
09:21 she landed chipping, no-one else seen: