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.
Thank you Moffer! They like where they are then!!!!
I reckon we're just seeing ditched backpacks blowin' in the wind and our birds are laughing at us in west Africa (wishful thinking).
IMAGICAT
Thanks Moffer. Like your theory scylla.
Thanks for the updates!! Today is a National Holiday in the USA and I forgot to check.
Tore and Bynack are probably in no hurry to leave because they are enjoying their new found freedom of fishing for themselves. No more waiting for EJ or Odin to bring a fish when they are hungry.
They will soon discover there are fish in most bodies of water.
Formerly known as Barbara Jean
Happy Labor Day BARBARA- hope you are making the most of your last cook out of the season whilst looking aloft for Ospreys passing your way on their way to south America and worse - Cuba (too much ocean)
Osprey nests are very rare where I live in Wisconsin so there is no chance for me to see one flying over. The Summers are too short.
We have one nest about 40 miles from me , but last year the chicks perished in a tornado and this year they died a day after they hatched. We had a very cold and rainy Spring.
If they fly along the east coast to Florida then it is only 90 miles to Cuba. Poor Bynack flew over 600 miles to reach land.
Bynack's latest points:
Tore's latest points:
Bynack's points only go up to 4th. He seems quiet content to just keep on exploring his river. Hope it's better in real life than on GE. So long as he tracks a lot westward before going south. I don't want him crossing the Med via Monaco and having all that desert to cross on the other side.
Bad weather in Cornwall today (tue 6) according to my sister in Helston.
Forecast same for the rest of the week :(
If you zoom right in on Tore the 5th Sept point looks like a great place to fish with slower flowing water in front of her.
A very old Shropshire Lad.