Well, it's now 2024 and hopefully another successful year for the Poole Harbour Ospreys.
The last couple of years have seen the successful establishment of a nest and raising of young.
Translocated females From the harbour have set up successful nests in Wales also raising young.
Hopefully this year may see the establishment of a second nest in the Harbour area.
Click Here for a link to the 2023 thread.
Here was the family last year
I hope Alison Copland won't mind but here is a link to a video she has made of the 2023 season. It is a must watch for followers of Ospreys, especially the Poole harbour family
Click HERE to watch
Richard B
I was counting as per Peregrine eggs which is calculated from 3rd or 4th egg! Realise that Ospreys start incubating from first egg!
2013 photos & vids here
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Here is 022 bring an earlier fish to CJ7 at 12.44. He’d had the head first.
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I’m not sure which type of fish. It has pink fins and a silver body?
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Glider said:I’m not sure which type of fish. It has pink fins and a silver body?
As you may have noticed, I'm not a fish ID-er - but that description says Perch to me.
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WendyBartter said:I was counting as per Peregrine eggs which is calculated from 3rd or 4th egg! Realise that Ospreys start incubating from first egg!
Ah, you do like your peregrines Wendy. I didn’t know that they delayed incubation, which is better for the chicks of the last laid eggs.
Yes Glider, often their eggs can all hatch on same day or at most over two days so they all can be equal size have a better chance at feeding times!
Looks like a Roach to me, caught either from the local river or one of the lakes. There's a fishing lake just up the road
Richard G B said:Looks like a Roach to me
Well I got the last 2 letters right, RICHARD
I shall now google Roach.
EDIT
Hmm, a Roach is like a Perch but with Mullet-y scales, from a distance.
Maybe a Rudd, but very silvery, and Roach more common.
The whole side is silver scales, whereas the Perch is a much duller colour, sometimes a greeny brown and it tends to have 3 wide bars down its side.
scylla said:. Glider said:I’m not sure which type of fish. It has pink fins and a silver body? As you may have noticed, I'm not a fish ID-er - but that description says Perch to me.
I wondered perch Scylla but it didn’t have stripes or greenish hue.