Tracking Other UK Ospreys

Sue C - sorry to be a dummy about this, but how do I go about using the Google tool bar  to translate? I can't find anything to click on.  :(

I'm sure you are all au fait with the following but thought I'd just copy it here in case one or two don't yet know - I've only just received my email from Bierregaard.

Osprey news:

Our slacker juvenile Osprey, Moffet, finally left the Vineyard and
last reported in about 100 miles NE of the Bahamas. We will hear from
him tomorrow. He should be moving on towards Cuba by now.

In my last email, I forgot to mention that we had lost the signal
from Hix, our Westport River juvenile, about 3 weeks ago. Two days
ago we got a signal from the transmitter, which meant that it somehow
turned over and the battery was recharged. I hopped on a plane,
directional antenna and receiver in my carry-on bag, and drove from
the Portland Airport up to Webb Lake, where we found the transmitter
and the remains of Hix. My OCSI (Ornithological Crime Scene
Investigation) points pretty convincingly to Great-horned Owl
predation.

We have also lost signals from Isabel (down in Venezuela) and Katy
(in Delaware). Katy, I suspect, may have also fallen victim to an
owl. No way to tell for sure without an OCSI, but she roosted in a
big woods and didn't come out the next day, so that suggests she
became part of the food chain.

I think we have a good chance of getting that transmitter back as
well. We have very good locations for its last signals and some folks
that want to go looking for it, so the search area will be small.
With luck, we'll have that transmitter on another young next summer.

Isabel's disappearance is a mystery. She was in an area that didn't
seem to have a lot of human activity down in Venezuela, so we'll
never know what happened to her.

I'm catching up with maps. I have updated the "Travels so far" maps
(the whole trip) but not the detailed maps for Caley, Buck, Hudson,
Mr. Hannah, Bea, Ozzie. On these maps, you can see the route the
birds took and how far south they are now. I'll try to get the
detailed maps up in the next week.

Best regards,

--
Rob Bierregaard

Hi Cirrus, I think it works like this:

1. You need to have Google Toolbar installed on your browser

2. The Translate button on the toolbar needs to be displaying - if it isn't, click the spanner symbol on the Toolbar, then the Tools tab and check Translate. 

What I then get, if I access a web page in a foreign language, is an extra bar with another Translate button, which produces a reasonable translation, usually enough to get the gist of what's being said.  Hope this helps.  

Wonderful Sue: thanks. You inspired me to search again and although I couldn't see a spanner tool, I clicked on 'more' and under that found 'Translate'.  Very much appreciated .

Unknown said:

Hi,

A summary of the update from Roy Dennis.

The adult ospreys he tagged in 2008 are all now back at the exact same wintering sites they used last year - Nimrod in mainland Guinea Bissau, Beatrice in southern Spain, Morven on the coast of Mauritania. (I know birds don't get bored, but I can't imagine why Morven chose that site - spending half the year roosting out in the desert with only scrubby bushes for cover, just sounds grim).

Of the newly-tagged birds, Red 8T is settled in southern Senegal at what is presumably his established wintering site. Talisman is still on the move, now  near the Mauritania-Senegal border. Rothiemurchus still isn't budging from the area E of Arouca in Portugal. I've googled some info about that  river which I'll put up shortly.         

Thanks Sue C, it's great that the class of 08 have all made it back to their (vastly different) wintering sites. I too am somewhat bemused by Morven's "choice" of wintering grounds - seems grim indeed.

I'm sure that Red 8T is home for the winter and the last report had Talisman powering down Africa so I reckon he'll be pitching up pretty soon. I think that Rothiemurchus will eventually make the move south as soon as he's ready, there's plenty of time yet.

What with the success of his other tracking projects, I'm sure that Roy must be delighted with the progress made this year.

Talisman is now in Senegal. Nimrod and Red8T are not too far away from Rothes location.

Jukka is well on the way to Africa. Latest plotted position is halfway across the Meditteranean Sea heading for Libya. Fortunately Jukka did not visit Malta. GE has been updated to 13.10.2009 at 10:00.

Thankds Alan so glad Jukka left Malta out after all the horror stories.

Update from Roy Dennis, on Talisman only - he has now reached the Cacheu river in Guinea Bissau.

Oh, thank goodness for some good news after Hix and the Malta debacle. Thank you Alan and Sue.

Auntie, you must be very pleased about Jukka. Off to look at GE now, although I'm sure Alan's time of update was already in  place when I last looked.

No, no, I was wrong ! Another couple of dateless placemarkers in place ('cos my GE for some reason does not display the infortmation I input - 'empty rectangle ' syndrome.  :(  Mmmm, it looks so arid where my precious Mallchie is currently - hurry up girl - more west and south yet please.  She's quite close (as these things go !) to Rothes line of flight.

Oooops, sorry, wrong forum. Is it OK to leave what I've typed though. Just this once.?