July 2022 thread
Our Osprey family
"Axel", Blue AX6(16) male (yes he does have strong chest markings), a single chick (possibly from 3 eggs) hatched Glen Affric, near Beauly, seen Lossiemouth 2020, then at LG in 2021
"Asha"- Female - Unringed - partnered Axel in 2021.
Axel & Asha (as "Mistle") fled the nest May 2021 due to unknown intruders.
HATCH #1 - 11 June @ 05:30
HATCH #2 - 13 June @ 04:11 (first sighting)
AT RINGING - Quote RSPB Abernethy Facebook "The male BLUE 1C2 is thought to be the older one at 1.5kgs with the female BLUE 1C1 being the younger one at 1.5kgs."
RSPB Video Channel - Osprey, Goshawk, Barn Owls: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl8QdQ9ZaBT65tF1yOmbMBQ
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IMAGICAT
From RSPB LG Facebook page 2 hours ago (2pm-ish) 'We haven't seen 1C2 this morning which is a promising sign that he has finally gone to find fish for himself. This made room for another hanger-on who has been seen around our nest for the past few weeks. KL5 is a male osprey that was ringed on north Loch Ness 2 years ago. Looks like he is making a play for the Garten nest and is even tidying it up!'
https://ospreycam.net
Edited: I have just seen a Threave Castle FB post on a sighting of their oldest chick this week.
They ringed their chicks on 29 June, so they are roughly two weeks older that 1C2. They hadn't seen the youngest chick Blue 040(22)f Blue 042(22)? recently but were delighted to receive photos of her fishing on the Plym Estuary in Devon!!
The other two, 040 and 041 are still near the nest.
All is not lost!! 1C2 was certainly feisty chick which I am sure will hold him in good stead. How wonderful it would be to get similar news about him soon.
An extract from a Threave post, yesterday afternoon before the posted of the sighting today, about midday
Wednesday afternoon was pleasantly warm down on the platform, but spotting Ospreys was not as easy now that we are getting near to the end of their Summer residency. There was no sign of Blue KC (I think she has left us) and no sign of the largest youngster, so she may well have ventured South too. Black 80 was around and sat in a tree to the right of the nest for a while before disappearing for the afternoon. He had left a fish on the nest during the morning, that had been taken away by one of the youngsters.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
The most important question to answer about IC2 is to ask how young have ospreys migrated and survived to be adults?
Well there is a very famous one that came from a nest not far from Loch Garten. He was hatched in 2009 and was a very late chick. Now for a variety of reasons he was forced to migrate at around 72 days.
Did he survive? He is still alive today. How do we know all of this? Well he carried one of those "evil" trackers.
He apparently has been nesting too.
Migration of Rothiemurchus
More on Rothiemurchus
Just look how far Rothiemurchus flew before he did a stopover.
See 20092010 and 2011
From 2009
Rothiemurchus was 700 metres from the Loch Garten osprey eyrie. He was still in the same place at 10pm, and an hour later was a little further north. What an incredible first day's journey of at least 147 miles.
Tiger Signature
Rothiemurchus intruded at LotL earlier this season, on the 25th May
A Special Guest on the Nest – Intruding Osprey ‘Rothiemurchus’ visits Loch of the Lowes
SheilaFE said:
I have just seen a Threave Castle FB post on a sighting of their oldest chick this week.
They ringed their chicks on 29 June, so they are roughly two weeks older that 1C2. They hadn't seen the oldest chick Blue 040(22)m recently but were delighted to receive photos of her fishing on the Plym Estuary in Devon!!
The other two, 041 and 042 are still near the nest.
It is actually the youngest of the 3, Blue 042, who is on the Plym Estuary. From Friends of Threave Osprey's FB group yesterday - "Just got a message to say that chick 042 has been seen on the Plym estuary in Devon. Fingers crossed for the nest stage of her journey. One gone 2 to go."
SheilaFE said:Wonderful, Sandra, thank you so much for the link.
You're very welcome, Sheila