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.
Oh, is that really a lake - it looks so murky
Well, I just do trust he managed to see in to it
sorry CIRRUS, I was reading and writing on other thread, but I see, you managed to find the lake (which I really hope IS a propper lake with ots of fish in it)
Cats and women will do as they please. Dogs and men should relax and get used to it.
If the fixes are every 3 hours as are Jukkas, Bynack must have spent between 6 and 9 hours at that lake. I wish the fixes would show times and other info like Jukkas.
Here is the Lake Cirrus....
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Thank you MARY. I wish it didn't look so dank
And to add something: Bynack may well have eaten BEFORE he headed out across the North Sea. His last data-point on UK Ground is near "Montrose Basin" which is a nature reserve with lots of water, isn't it?
He will not necessarily have caught a fish there, but he COULD have caught one. One never knows.
Well if its as Alan has said and that he was there for several hours Cirrus, then something must have been keeping him there, ofcourse he could just be resting up after his marathon flight, oh what a boy that Bynack is....
I am following Bynack's route to the last point and I find it incredible as these are all areas I am familiar with, been through Bellegem several times, having stayed in leper (Ypres) 4 times in the last 5 years on our way back from Germany. Talk about coincidence!!! He has great taste in where he is exploring at the moment is our Bynack!!! Just cannot wait to see the next update, hope it comes soon as I will be off on holiday tomorrow.
This is a pic of where Bynack spent some time. Water looks clean enough: