Osprey Sightings 2024

Freebird66 said:

Hi Alan are these birds on migration or are they wintering in France?

Hiya FREEBIRD - I would need geography lessons to base an opinion on - but surely it's too early for migration ???

These sightings so fa are over wintering ospreys
Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Friday, January 26th, 2024
Lac d'Artix/6404 / Pardies (64)
Detail : 1x (flying)
1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
[ Geoffroy Chabot]

Gironde
Saturday, January 27th, 2024
Dune des Hougas (Est) / Lège-Cap-Ferret (33)
1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
[ Alexandre Bert Guide Naturaliste Ot D'arès]
[Grégory Boré]
Jane de Boy / Lège-Cap-Ferret (33)
1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
[ Alexandre Bert Guide Naturaliste Ot D'arès]
[Grégory Boré]

Gironde
Monday, January 29th, 2024
Chenal du Piquey- Large de Pointe aux Chevaux / Lège-Cap-Ferret (33)
1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
[ Isabelle Thiberville]
Chenal du Courant / Teste-de-Buch (La) (33)
1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
[ Isabelle Thiberville

Landes
Sunday, February 4th, 2024
Lac de Bédorède / Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse (40)
Detail : 1x female (stationary)
1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
[ Geoffroy Chabot]

Gibraltar bird observatory latest
06 Feb: Clear skies with some high cloud in the morning. Misty in the Strait with plenty of cloud over the Moroccan shore. Winds Moderate north-westerly but moderate to fresh south-westerlies in the Strait. picking up to fresh north-west in the afternoon.
The first Black Kite of the season flew north over the Observatory just before midday. Three Swallows heading north.

06/02 19:10 Suffolk : Osprey, Mickle Mere
one photographed on Sunday (04/02 14:00)

Good grief! Is that the earliest one has been spotted in the UK?

Oh my, that surely is early Alan?