News from Other Nests - 2023

Sandra P said:

Thanks Glider, great to see them! It would be wonderful to get confirmation that it is definitely Black 80 (son of Mrs G and Orange 11(98) - he's 17 years old this year!

Yes, certainly hope so Sandra.  He’s sired many youngsters over the years! 

Two at Threave now

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, however it may result in a reply!!

I have been looking at the United Kingdom Osprey website and although the "Countdown" of arrivals is running there has been no changes to reflect the arrival of the 3 pairs on the sites that have been mentioned on the posts here, LotL, MB and Threaves. Does anyone know why this is or of a contact that could give an explanation, as it is a very handy resource.

Hi
After Pete Dee passed away nobody had access to the site anymore. but there is a new website by Jeff Kear: UKOspreyInformation.com, where Jeff is building up a new database of all things osprey.
Also he created this document "Significant Events at Individual Nests", which will be a great reference point to use as a catch up. He may also need volunteers to help update the document, so if you're interested please contact him.
docs.google.com/.../pub

Thanks, Bart. I must have missed the sorry news of Pete Dee's death and that the site would no longer be updated.
The new website and database will be very useful but I doubt that I will be able to do any volunteering to help updates as we are away most of the year round and can't rely of getting wifi signals all the time.

Things are going well at Threave.

Friends of Threave Osprey Facebook reported that the 2 birds have been mating. They’ve still to identify if the birds are the resident couple Black80 and BlueKC but will let us know when they know.

After I saw the announcement I downloaded 6 hours of live stream, planning to create a spectacular snap to post here - but oh dear, the weather was horrendous the whole time, wind & rain leading to a blurred view throughout.  I just managed to get this from YT rollback, it was still windy but not so wet:

The two birds at Threave were so comfortable with each other right from the start, and they were looking very at home on that nest immediately after landing, so I feel they must be the resident pair--hope that is confirmed.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the news earlier - a new couple would be likely to go thru a trial 'n error and/or trial 'n rejection phase for a day or three

Thanks, Scylla.