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.
He'll have to change river soon though, because he's following it upstream; the Meuse (or Maas) flows north to meet the North Sea, in the Netherlands.
Bynack's moves since the last update:
Oh Oh I didn't catch that !! He got himself turned around, probably when he was fishing . Lets hope tomorrow shows he is back on a Southerly track. --
Formerly known as Barbara Jean
Barbara No he is going south - but the river's flowing north. This map shows it quite well.
Thanks Sue C I had not zoomed in enough and it looked like he had back-tracked between the 28th and 29th. I just looked again and he is going in a Southerly direction. The people in the buildings near the trees where he was roosting don't realize they have a "world famous Osprey" next to their property :)
Glad you posted that photo ALAN - it does look good.
But my brain can't handle Sue and Barbara's river flowing north and Bynack going south (well, good!) -what's the problem, oh, unless the river is going to peter out and that's why he'll need a new river. OK . Hopefully I got that .
In your own time, Tore..........
Tore's haunts around the Tamar. The nearest land across the Channel, Guernsey, is about 160 km from here.
Oh gee, that is a long way for a young bird. Too bad she lost her courage when she was at the Dover Straits . It was a much shorter distance.
There must be other migrating Ospreys in the area so she may see enough of them fly over the water and take her chances and go .
I think Alan or Tiger said ospreys can hang around on this side of the water for upto a month so I hope we all have some fingernails to chew on lol.
As long as that little orange line keeps moving Im happy just goes to show how individual these birds are if you look at Tore and Joe not to mention Ozwold who seems on a different planet :)
A very old Shropshire Lad.
ChrisS Some do but some do not. Nethy and Deshar in 2008 stopped over for about a month in the south of England before moving on. On the other hand I am pretty sure the Bassenthwaite pair 11 and 12 last year flew all way to Africa with virtually no stopping.
Tiger Signature
Update from Richard 11.50 this morning on the main blog.
TRACKING LATEST:
Tore – 10miles South of St Austell (29/8/11) 09.40
Bynack – 100miles West of Strasbourg (29/8/11) 09.25
Rothes – 50miles North of Bordeaux (30/8/11) 09.22
Tore has therefore flown about 30 miles further down the Cornish coast - which gives an even longer crossing to France, and more chance of "missing" France and having to do the Bay of Biscay crossing, with the risks demonstrated by Rothiemurchus in 2009.