After Tiger started the thread for tracking Rothes and Mallachie I thought that we could do with a thread for the tracking of ospreys fitted with transmitters by Roy Dennis. As the "summer" marches on it won't be long before the only way we can get our osprey fix is to follow their migrations.
This year we have the opportunity of following all three tagged birds from last year: Nimrod, Beatrice and Morven. It will be fascinating to find out if they will winter in exactly the same place as last year, and also whether they take the same route.
Added to that Roy has tagged two more adult males this year, Red/white 8T (an Abernethy bird) and Morven's other half (Logie's ex fella). I'm not certain whether Roy has any further transmitters or will attempt to catch any more adult males but, including Rothes and Mallachie, we will be able to follow at least 7 ospreys on their incredible journeys this autumn.
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I don't know if anybody has suggested it yet but have you tried going back to default settings to see if that helps.
Use whatever talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sing the best.- Henry Van ***
Jukka's position has been updated on GE. Still in the same area of Poland at 04:00 today 07/10/2009.
Alan, Thanks for update on Jukka. From the commentary, it seems his handlers had been a bit concerned, that he was at a fish farm, and then no signals were received for a couple of days - OK now though.
I've found another satellite tagged Eastern European osprey - meet Erika from Estonia: http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/2650
She's now completed her migration - via Turkey to the Sudan i.e she goes East - while Jukka, although he passed through Estonia early on, now seems to be heading West.
Thanks SueC. The fish farm looks similar to the one that Rothes stayed near in France only larger. I did think that the tracking was a bit odd but could not translate.
More thanks for finding Erika. She is certainly a striking looking bird. It is interesting to compare the migration tracks of these two birds.
This sighting was on the faune -aquitaine site. The bird had a white ring on left leg but was too far to read. White TF sprung to mind.
http://www.faune-aquitaine.org/index.php?m_id=4&sp_DOffset=3&mp_item_per_page=60&mp_current_page=3
Unknown said: This sighting was on the faune -aquitaine site. The bird had a white ring on left leg but was too far to read. White TF sprung to mind. http://www.faune-aquitaine.org/index.php?m_id=4&sp_DOffset=3&mp_item_per_page=60&mp_current_page=3
Site doesn't say if adult or juvenile. Could be Garten??
Realise this is all pure speculation but nice to dream. (I realise its getting a bit late for Garten who left way before White TF)
FlyingC : I had the exact thought just after posting. It could be Garten but it could be lots of other birds with a large white ring on their left leg. It is likely to be a Scottish bird that is the only thing that is certain. We are all desperate to get a sighting of Garten.
We certainly are, sigh. (Thinking of you Karen).
Astonishing figures from the US migration site. 211 ospreys in one day:
http://www.hawkcount.org/month_summary.php?rsite=169
Nimrod from Roy's Pages
03 October 2009
Nimrod spent the morning on local flights in the eastern parts of the Bay of Cadiz, and strongly due to the weather he did not set off a migration until midday when he was flying SSE at 52km/h north east of Chiclana. At 1pm he was just north of the pine woods at Cape Trafalgar and probably set out over the sea from there, as an hour later he was over the sea 8 km north of Tangier flying SSE at 169 m above the sea. He continued flying strongly to the south or SSW through Northern Morocco, and at 1800GMT was flying S over the sea North of Kenitra. He continued to fly over the sea tracking the coast being 19 km off Rabat at 7pm. He was flying SW at 56km/h at 472 metres so seemed to be on determined migration and this was still the case at 8pm (last transmission) when he was flying S at 51km/h at 444 metres off Dar el-Buda.
04 October 2009
By 0600GMT was 430 km further on his journey and so must have been flying all night and average speed of 43km/h. At dawn he was well out into the Atlantic Ocean (heading for the Canary Islands!) and at 0600 hours to turn back to wards the coast flying at 41km/h 60 m above the sea and he was 95 km NW of Agadir. 4 hours later he had made back to the Moroccan coast at Tiznit. He then flew slowly down the coast and spent from 1pm to 3pm on a headland south of Mirhfelt; and then moved inland and roosted for the night on top of a small hill.
05 October 2009
He must have been tired after overnight flight over the ocean and today he travelled just 148 kilometres down the Moroccan coast and roosted for the night and just north of Tan-Tan.
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