NEWS FROM OTHER NESTS - 2011

Hi Rachel,

Yes, 05 hasn't been mentioned this year; however Rutland have a policy of only mentioning breeding age Osprey's from site B & Manton Bay. This year they've given details on sites O & N because of the disappearence of 08(97). For example today they have given details that 3 young fledged at site K but have not detailed who the parents are.

However a wandering 05(08) is a possibility. Thanks

Unknown said:

Hi Rachel,

Yes, 05 hasn't been mentioned this year; however Rutland have a policy of only mentioning breeding age Osprey's from site B & Manton Bay. This year they've given details on sites O & N because of the disappearence of 08(97). For example today they have given details that 3 young fledged at site K but have not detailed who the parents are.

However a wandering 05(08) is a possibility.

I'd noticed that - understandable in one sense, but extremely frustrating! It must be even more so for those who have followed the Rutland nests for many years and saw or read about these now-returning birds from hatching to first migration. And it really doesn't seem necessary - as witness the strategy used in Scotland (discussed by Roy Dennis in Life of Ospreys), where nests other than the well-publicised ones are referred to only by number, specifically so that they can report breeding information without identifying the locations of nests.

Completely agree, I've never understood it. I can't see how divulging the fact that 03(97) breeds at site N gives away any information of use to anyone wanting to steal eggs, shoot Ospreys or get too close to a nest site.

Rutland was the first Osprey centre I visited (in 2000) & have followed the goings on ever since, I'd love to hear for example if it is 30(05) at site K and agree that it surly wouldn't give anything away by telling us (I don't want or need to know where the site is!!)

At Caerlaverock nest, Osprey chick ZY has taken her first flight - four days after her sibling, although hatched only one day later.

sandy said:

Another fantastic compilation from Dyfi - with proof that chicks do share fish (only when it's a garfish!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP-PUiEF5wk

Thanks for that Link Sandy what an amazing compilation.

There's a Forestry Commission video of the ringing of the chicks in both nests at Kielder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHpOUB976o

Thanks Sandy for the Dyfi compilation. Well worth watching.

Thanks, also, to Joan, for the Kielder ringing video. I wish them well.

DjoanS said:

There's a Forestry Commission video of the ringing of the chicks in both nests at Kielder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHpOUB976o

Thans Joan for the above.  Ospreys, ospreys and more ospreys, doesn't get better than this.

Thanks for the Kielder link Joan - lovely to watch. The chick from the main nest seemed totally unbothered by it all - just sitting looking around at the new angle on his world.