OSPREY CHAT THREAD - MARCH 2021 TO END FEBRUARY 2022

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  • Unknown said:
    What can I say to all this knowledge ! ............. thank you, it's more than my memory serves

    Other members' memory and research and organisation skills make me weep.

  • Limpy and I are keeping everything crossed that a proposed translocation project in Suffolk gets the go-ahead. Watch this space!

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • Oh that sounds wonderful, Clare. Hope it happens and soon.

    Kind regards, Ann

  • I managed to find the photo of 03(97) in the snow at Site B when he returned on 17 March 2013 on line.

    I would imagine it would be one of John Wrights photo's as he took so many great photos of him, it is such a pity we cannot get access to all those blogs from back then, so much history not available now. 

    © LEICESTER AND RUTLAND WILDLIFE TRUST

  • Hi Mary

    I checked out the old Rutland archive pages and there are quite a few pictures of 03(97) the earliest I found was 2002. As you say the photos are mainly those taken by John Wright. From the Home page, scroll down to the bottom left side and you will see a link to Previous Years back to 1999.

    http://www.zen88810.zen.co.uk/ROspreys%20site/index.html

  • Thankfully this historical site (Zen) has been kept live Jenni - I think it was created and maintained by Barry Gilpin. EDIT: Corrected to Barrie Galpin as per Mike Grinning

    It is the LRWT website with all the blogs from previous years that was shut down, that the blog I was thinking of with 03 in the snow at Site B, nice to see photos of 03 on the old Zen site though.  Thank you for the link again.   

  • Trust you to find that super photo, MARY, brrrr Heart eyes

    Thank you for the info about the archive, JANNI - I've bookmarked it and may even get around to checking it out one of these days - more likely nights Wink

  • The Zen site was indeed set up and run by Barrie Galpin who still owns the site.
    It is regarded as one of the finest sites of its kind charting, as it does, the history of the Rutland Translocation Programme.
  • And referred to on a regular basis, I believe, Mike!

    I too am thrilled to read that a consultation is under way to translocate ospreys to Suffolk, using Rutland chicks. What a super success the Rutland Project was, to now being used to try to build a new colony. Fantastic news!

    Birdie's DU Summaries 2018   https://www.imagicat.com/

  • It sounds like it would be at the Blyth estuary if it goes ahead. It's certainly a regular place for migrating ospreys, especially southwards.

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

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