I was talking to a long standing member of this group and they remarked that I did not post here much but I still know what is going on. Well i still read a lot of the post and this is still one of the best sources of osprey history.
For the record I have been a member of this group since it opened on 21 July 2009. That is over fourteen years.
So how long have you been here and what have ospreys done for you?
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1st April 2012 was interesting in that EJ was happily sharing the nest with her lover when Odin turned up. What happened next was incredible.
See Sunday 1 April 2012
Don't want to remember that thank you Tiger. Sigh
scylla said:
Thanks for the conf, Clare
SheilaFE said: 13 October 2015 Noisette posted a thread on her search.
The link works fine - thank you, Sheila.
Uppermost in my mind is the lack of "official" appreciation for Noisette's voluntary efforts, at least until she came up with results.
Hello, it's a very long time since I posted on the Ospreys ! This is a link to the Breagh search https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/f/loch-garten-ospreys/134683/the-hunt-for-breagha/995744#pifragment-4292=1 there were more threads afterwards.
The feathers were sent back to Loch Garten I think. I got a report done in the local papers but nothing ever came out to prove what happened.
However I did have a lovely personal thankyou from the lady at Loch Garten centre who sent me a beautiful print which I framed & hung on the wall above my desk.
I was also sent a beatiful book by Mike, Ospreys in Wales, the first ten years. Thanks Mike.
I joined in 2011 after Rothes came & paid us a few visits on his way south. I made a lot of friends & was helped a lot in my computer skills which were zero at the time, it was Tiger on the technical thread who taught me copy & paste. So thanks all. I still love Ospreys but not seen one for a few years now. I spend a lot of my time doing Moth inventorys & Working as validator on a national moth site (in France).
Take care all.
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Unknown said:Don't want to remember that thank you Tiger. Sigh
Well some of us do. EJ was caught i delicto flagrante and tried to cover up. But the cameras were down the morning so no video evidence exists.
Hazel C said:I did have a lovely personal thankyou from the lady at Loch Garten centre who sent me a beautiful print
@Noisette - am so glad you were appreciated (by others than us) in the end!
Hazel C said:I was also sent a beatiful book by Mike, Ospreys in Wales, the first ten years. Thanks Mike.
Typical of our dear Mike, whom we lost last year
Another of our departed friends, "Moffer", would be very pleased to see your new pastime - she used to collect moths in her garden at night and count/study them.
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Two things, Tiger. The evening of EJ's latest ever arrival, in 2013 - word went out that an osprey had been seen fishing in Loch Vaa, which did turn out to be EJ. It felt like half the world was glued to that camera, willing the osprey to be EJ. The other thing was (a couple of years later) the arrival of Odin in the middle of the night!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
I got EJ's return exactly right in 2011 but it got airbrushed from history. See here