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.
FlyingC,
OK, it's a bird I only found out about recently, named Karin, who migrates between Mallorca and Sweden. The links are in my recent post about Mallorca in the "Conservation & Translocation" thread. Unless you understand Catalan (I don't!), you'll need to use Google Toolbar translate or similar.
Anyway, the news is that Karin left Mallorca on Weds 24th Feb and flew north to the Spanish mainland.
I'm going to start the new thread with a list of the birds we know about and their "key details", links etc.
One of the French birds is back. See Roy Dennis' blog at http://www.roydennis.org/index.asp?id=11
Tiger Signature
Jukka was still in his wintering area in Cameroon February 24 8am, number 755
my photos in flickr
SUE C
Thanks for that. I checked out the other thread and saw the history about Karin. Fascinating.
Unknown said:
Bit of confusion in my post, there! Got my replies muddled up....
Tracking of Satellite tagged ospreys is now continuing on the thread:
"Satellite Tracked Ospreys - March 2010-" http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/groups/lochgartenospreys/forum/t/10254.aspx
and this is the new thread for reporting osprey sightings:
"Osprey Sightings - March 2010-"http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/groups/lochgartenospreys/forum/p/10257/74029.aspx#74029