Tracking Rothes and Mallachie

Hi Cirrus

No-one else has posted in favour of separating them, so I'm now inclined to leave them together too. It would have been a lot of work to create separate files. With the info now being posted on Mallachie's movements/stops, I'm also beginning to think there is a value in comparing them.

Especially with juvenile birds migrating (and probably fishing) for the first time, I wonder what determines the direction of travel? How they know what will be a good fishing spot/roost? What makes them decide to have an extended stopover, like Rothes, and then to carry on again? No answers, only questions.......   

Unknown said:

 I've done the 'flying' thing with Mallachie on GE but would like to know how I place a Flag at her current location in Northumberland. Is anyone able to help?

Hi again. On GE they are called Placemarks - I just opened GE to find that was the very Tip which was on display. Here's a link to the Help Page - it seems to work:

http://earth.google.com/intl/en_uk/userguide/v5/ug_placemarks.html

Hi Everyone.

I agree with Cirrus - keep them together, and keepcontent of this page as it is now - focused firmly on the tracking, the behaviour of the birds - tips about making the best use of Google Earth etc for this purpose. There are plenty of other LG forums where we can log our chit chat and the minutiae of our daily lives.

Update from Richard, it seems Rothes is enjoying France and Mallachie is also moving on. 

Thank you Sue C - good advice about the place marker in GE and I'm popping my map pins in on a regular basis.

Carol shared a link to the reservoir where mallachie is currently and it looks a very good place indeed but GE makes it look very dark and deep and fishless (which is isn't apparently, so Mallachie may well catch her supper there).

Great news that our girls are making good progress. Rothes certainly has found a nice spot.

I also like having both birds on the same thread, it is so much easier to drop in and see how they are doing. It seems a good place to sort out queries on Google Earth and how we can make the most of it, especially as you Tiger seem to know a lot about it. I'm also fascinated by the links people find to pictures and information along the route the girls take, so very educational and I'm never too old to learn!

College Lake nature reserve and Tring Reservoirs on the Herts/Beds border both reported an Osprey at the weekend. No sightings of rings recorded, but this is not the first year they have been seen here. Liz

I like the progress on both birds to be together too.  Ilve just done a tour over the latter stages of  Mallachie's flight so far, and it looks really beautiful country for an osprey.

Cirrus:  Did you know that the more programs or 'windows' you have open at the one time, the longer it takes for a page to load?  If you close what you don't really need, it may improve your loading speed, and your enjoyment.  ;-)

Mallachie following the River Swale almost to York, though it was out of her direct route, does suggest to me that she was getting into the fishing.

Now she's crossed over a built-up area in West Yorkshire, to the eastern edge of the Peak District. If she heads south from here, there are lots more reservoirs serving the big East Midlands cities, so we may see her hopping from one to the next.  

Website for the Peak District: http://www.peakdistrict.org/index.htm