Weekly Chat, Sunday September 13, 2009

Thanks, Margobird. I actually found "your" ospreys, when the camera I was "hooked on" that was in ospreynest in Archipelago sea in Finland, got broken first time this summer in thunderstorm. And the possibility to follow the migration is absolutely fascinating.

Caerann

I was born in and grew up in a small country town called  CROOK.  It is in the south west corner of County Durham in the north east of England.  If is about 7 miles from Toronto and 15 miles from Washington. 

Welcome Auntie to our wonderful osprey community. We have also been following your ospreys in Finland at Hailuoto and Nauvo. We were very sad to hear about Koo but feel it was for the best.

Here today it is a glorious day.

Sunny Intervals.

Temp 17.5

Wind E 9mph

Vis 40km

Pressure 1019 falling

I have just taken Hamish for a walk and it was so quiet when I was out that I felt like shouting "Yo Bears" FAB

jsb

Nobody should ring you and ask for your details over the phone.  If they do and it sounds important tell them you will ring BT, or whoever, and confirm it with them.  Don't give them any details and try 1471 as well when you hang up.  It will probably be a waste of time though.

Thank you, Alan for Your welcome. I didn´t follow the Hailuoto nest so much (partly because of Koo), I prefferd the Nauvo nest. It was successful nest; two strong male chicks (third egg was a dud). Unfortenately the camera got broke, so we don´t know when they started their migration. The camera is still down, so I was wondering if Thunderbirds (my childhood heroes) can do something about that? So we could watch seaeagles during the winter. (sorry ´bout the misspellings...)

Yes, welcome auntie, don't think we have anyone from Finland. The closest is from Sweden:)

Glad you took the "plunge" and joined it. Your english is excellent so don't worry at all.

Loved all the wildlife chat. Our possums are like Annette's, grey and we used to have a racoon family living in the woods backing onto the garden of our previous house. Had  a heart attack one day when I was walking under a tree and looked up and a large racoon was looking down at me!! We also have wood chucks/groundhogs here which are very cute.

Auntie : We will have to see what we can do at International Rescue about the Nauvo camera. As you know we have 2 chicks with sat tags which we follow on GE. There are also a number of other tagged birds on Roy dennis site which might be of interest to you:

http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp

Do you know if any Finnish birds have been sat tagged this year?

Caerann, I confess to be a very "low key" birder. I love watching the Ospreys/webcams but do not do much more than that. We check out the bald eagles that come down during the winter.

We now have 248 people in the Loch Garten Ospreys group so if there is anyone out there, and I know that there are lots, dont be shy we are very friendly and would love to hear from you.