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.
That is great KATIE, how efficient of you. Thank you!
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
So do I CIRRUS. Somehow he seems to be to be the more vulnerable of the two, but I am sure he is a quick learner.
Thank you Katie. That's a great in-depth look at where they have been.
Loch Garten stats. and All the important links for LG.
Tore took the high road and Bynack took the low road. I know who will be in France first.
ALAN ... and they will never meet again ... on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Garten?
When I heard that song last, the lyrics were slightly different ;-)
Katie, thank you so much for all the information. Great job.
And all of us who keep worrying about Bynack being more "vulnerable": don't forget the moment he fell over on his back, struggled and stood upright again. He's a fighter, our boy.
Cats and women will do as they please. Dogs and men should relax and get used to it.
Still trying to catch up after long weekend away - there's a lot to catch up on, considering that the family (with possible exception of Odin) have all left!
It is interesting that Tore and Bynack have both started on migration, while two of the three Glaslyn juveniles (who are, I think, 2 weeks older, and were the first chicks hatched this year) are still around the nest.
Alex Z said: And all of us who keep worrying about Bynack being more "vulnerable": don't forget the moment he fell over on his back, struggled and stood upright again. He's a fighter, our boy.
How could I possibly forget that Alex. My heart was in my mouth watching it. And when Tore seemed to have her foot on Bynack's wing, well.... Indeed, he struggled, and struggled and struggled and eventually got himself the right way up. Whew.
A (perhaps silly?) question came to my mind, while having supper:
would a young osprey on first migration fly constantly at well above 1500 ft altitude, if he/she had NOT eaten? It would seem strange to me. I would guess he/she would fly low or medium hight in order to spot promising lakes, pond etc. But what do I know of osprey instinct?
But if so....
When Tore departed from the Suffolk cost she seems to have gained height very soon to nearly 900 ft. All later data points show an altitude between 1900 and 3000 ft. I know the points given by the data are only cut out moments of a more complex process, but even then: should we assume Tore has eaten before leaving Suffolk?
My heart was in my mouth, and I was absolutely convinced that all the beatings on the back of his head, when he would collapse "unconscious", would cause him brain damage. He's a toughie, for sure.
Checking my videos, I see that the earliest date is 6 June and the chicks are relatively steady on their feet. I missed some very precious moments but if I'm here next year I shall be geared up from the start, and others of us will be too, we'll have a team on the job so that we have the whole season on record - I'm so excited! :-D
CIRRUS, I'm in Streatham, SW16, and I am not a native Londoner :-)
IMAGICAT
OK , got that belatedly - many thanks SCYLLA