I offered yesterday to start a new Topic once Bynack had fledged, but as we now have the updated Satellite Tracking page, and biography pages for Tore and Bynack, and there are some tracking results for Tore on Google Earth, I’ve gone ahead with it.
A brief introduction to the ospreys we’re tracking – first, the class of 2011.
Tore – link to her Biography
Tore is the elder of this year’s juveniles, her ring is blue/white 48. She fledged on Tuesday 12th July aged 54 days, and has started to do a little exploring.
Bynack – link to his Biography
Tore’s younger brother, ring blue/white 47. Bynack is aged 53 days today and has yet to fledge.
Edit: He has fledged, at 10.18 am today 16/7.
Rothes – link to her Biography
Rothes is the eldest of EJ and Odin’s offspring, hatched at Loch Garten in 2009. Her ring is white/black PJ. She migrated as a juvenile to Guinea-Bissau, and spent her formative months on the small island of Unhocomozinho, in the Bijagos Archipelago. Now a sub-adult, she has travelled north to Europe for the first time this summer and is currently in the Gironde estuary in SW France, where she also spent 6 weeks on her way south in 2009. So far, she has not returned to the UK.
Rothes' earlier travels were followed in this thread, now closed.
Rachel The only breeding population of ospreys in mainland France is on the Loire around Orleans - over 200 miles from where Rothes is, and not an area she has ever visited.
I've been looking through the "osprey updates" issued by the LPO, the RSPB's counterparts in France, and remembered this one, which had some interesting info. For those who read French, it's in the Conservation section starting on page 4, which discusses ospreys migrating through, and occasionally wintering in, south western France. The article also mentions several instances of ospreys summering in the area, mainly around the string of lakes just behind the coast, through the Gironde and Landes departments. Each of these occurrences seems to have related to a single bird staying for one summer only, and did not lead to nesting, though the LPO have put up nesting platforms in these areas.
These accounts, plus the way Rothes is behaving now, seem to support the idea that there is such a thing as partial migration by some sub-adult ospreys (sorry Tiger!) The birds in the LPO reports wouldn't have been adults who had previously bred further north, as ospreys are site faithful and will return to their nest site.
Of course, in the next report we'll find Rothes is heading north.........
Good Morning
I have raised a couple of queries about the updated Tracking Page & Google Earth in the About..............forum - here's the link.
Rothes, 24th July, one new point added to GE, still by the edge of the fish ponds.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Just came accross the following post on another forum. An Osprey with transmitter & what appears to be a white darvic ring on the left leg in the Gironde area!!!!!!!!!
www.birdforum.net/showthread.php
Unknown said: Just came accross the following post on another forum. An Osprey with transmitter & what appears to be a white darvic ring on the left leg in the Gironde area!!!!!!!!! www.birdforum.net/showthread.php
Wow that is such exciting news Vespa.
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It's got to be Rothes - it's the first time she's been photographed since leaving LG.
Tiger, you post in birdforum - are you going to reply to him?
Well spotted Vespa. It simply has to be Rothes.
A very interesting photo!
OH had just pointed out the Bird Forum post and pic. and I come on here and find you are all ahead of me. I certainly hope it is Rothes.
Unknown said: It's got to be Rothes - it's the first time she's been photographed since leaving LG. Tiger, you post in birdforum - are you going to reply to him?
I have been trying hard but this computer keeps refusing to allow me to post on BirdForum. Not sure why but it was the same a few months ago.
The pic is of an osprey with a very white front, unlikely to be a female?