Tracking Loch Garten Ospreys : July 2011- May 2012

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.

Torelink 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.  

  • This is all so fascinating.  Seeing how relatively close all the LG, Rutland and Dyfi birds are travelling, with a number of cross-overs with Rothes and Mallachie.  Nethy seems to have followed her own course further east most of the way.  I wonder whether there were strong westerlies or sou'westerlies at the time.

    Bynack seems to have taking his late summer holidays at the moment!

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  • moffer said:

    I have been playing around with GE, and I don't know what I did, but when I zoomed in to Bynacks last point, I got this view from the small road that runs along the side of the small river that he is on. You can see the water behind the trees :o) As close as we can get to the boy!

    Moffer  What happened is that you zoomed in to a spot which is covered by Google Street View, and got automatically switched into Street View. I have also noticed that the ospreys' points and routes still show up there.

    If you want to see whether an area is covered by Street View, move the cursor towards the controls in the top right hand corner of the screen. You will see a little orange "stick man" appear. If you drag him over the map, roads which are covered by Street View are displayed in purple. To go directly to a location on any of these roads, drag the stick man into that position and then release the left mouse button.     

  • New blog from Richard

    Tore has gone a further 400 miles south and............. Bynack is moving, at last!!! :o))))) There is some concern about Rothes?

  • Don't you hate when you get a comment that makes you worry for the rest of the day.   You wonder whether she has stopped transmitting, headedout to sea or headed North.  Now I will get nothing constructive done :0((

  • I went into street view where Bynack is resting up on the white road which is next to the river where he has been fishing and as you follow the road the GE dates come up on the side of the road as though Bynack had written it himself as in "Bynack was here" lol.

    Good to hear he is on the move although I havnt checked myself as Im in and out today.

    A very old Shropshire Lad.

  • Unknown said:

    Don't you hate when you get a comment that makes you worry for the rest of the day.   You wonder whether she has stopped transmitting, headedout to sea or headed North.  Now I will get nothing constructive done :0((

    Yes, LMAC -everytime  I see a car reg plate with PJ in it , ( and we have one in my street) I think of Rothers.

  • Unknown said:

    Don't you hate when you get a comment that makes you worry for the rest of the day.   You wonder whether she has stopped transmitting, headedout to sea or headed North.  Now I will get nothing constructive done :0((

    Yes, LMAC -everytime  I see a car reg plate with PJ in it , ( and we have one in my street) I think of Rothes.

  • Hoping the news will be good for Rothes when I check in the morning.    Please keep him safe.

  • Clarification from Richard re Rothes - they think it's a technical problem, not that he has come to harm.

    "28 Sep 2011 12:42 PM Please don't fret unduly about Rothes, just yet anyway. We think she is ok, but something might not be quite right with the tag, perhaps something simply like some feathers preventing the sun hitting the solar panel, hence low voltage, hence poor/no data."

  • Just read the concern about Rothes. Richard's is still referring to  HER so  he must feel Rothes is still a  female.   Rothes' tag is 2 years old and I  believe it was said they last 2-3 years and then  fail/ fall off. I hope the tag isn't  failing,  we won't know when she/he gets back to  LG.

    Formerly known as Barbara Jean