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.
Ditto, Sandy. Like you, the first I knew about the migrations was the World on the Move programme. I was fascinated by the technology of the satellite tag on Logie. Unfortunately, I then fell for Logie in a big way and was most upset when she went missing. At the time, it was possible to comment on the World on the Move website/blog page but when that closed, I thought it was the end of it. Then a friend on flckr alerted me to Loch Garten and away I went again!
Hi, Have been viewing the blog from Loch Garten for several years & these forums since their inception this year, but never bothered to join in as Ospreys were birds that lived their lives many miles from me in Hertfordshire. However I now appear to have an Osprey just a mile from my house! The latest on the Juvenile is that there are suspicions that it may overwinter. It is ringed with both a metal ring on its right leg and a Blue plastic ring on it's left with E17 or Z17 in white type.
Welcome Vespa Crabro, have been reading about this osprey and I am sure it will be a first if it decides to say over the winter. Maybe someone will be able to identify it and where it has come from. Who knows you may be lucky enough to see it.
Margobird
Hi Vespa C (already your name is being shortened - if you would rather it wasn't please let me know!) How exciting that the osprey is so close to you. It will be interesting to see if it can be identified. Things happen so quickly on these sites, someone might already have done so. Unfortunately I personally am unable to help you with that but great news that it is ringed. I know that there is an RSPB link related site to help identify bird rings but I remember once trying to use it and was informed that I might have to wait about a year to eighteen months for a reply! (Can't remember the exact name of the site but not the RSPB per se)
I think the ringing convention on this osprey is foreign. Therefore not a British bird.
Hi VespaC,
You may know this already, but there is a blog currently featuring the Herts/Bucks osprey, run by a local "obsessive twitcher" (his words, not mine). http://birdingamersham.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html
It looks like he & his associates are on the case regarding identification - and are probably the people putting in the reports to Birdguides. I think the page FlyingC was trying to recollect, is this, accessed through Euring.org: http://www.cr-birding.be/
It looks out of date for a number of countries, so for ospreys seen in the UK, it's probably a better bet to contact Roy Dennis: http://www.roydennis.org/Osprey/index.asp?id=88
Hi Sue,
Yes as you surmised some of my Info came from this website (sorry forgot to put in link earlier) together with updates from a number of local birders on a Herts mail group that I belong to. The website you've linked has some great shots of the bird. Apparently the latest on the ring is that closer views have shown it reads MB on a dark blue ring, I understand that they have mailed Roy Dennis so hopefully more information on its origins soon.
So it looks like a Scottish bird but not one of the 3 in the borders.The rings this year are blue on the left leg, and the ring 'numbers' are : "LK" for Tokyo, "LL" for Caledonia" and "LM" for Stig. There were 22 chicks in total from this area but I dont know how many were ringed.
Apparently the Osprey that has been in the Chess Valley area since 21st October is from North Scotland
Thanks for that info. I thought it was probably from the north of Scotland. Was that confirmed by Roy Dennis?