Daily Update (LG Nest) Sunday, 21st August 2011

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CC: Another one on this side of the pond. You were up late!

For all the good it did. My new laptop and I did not have the settings for video capture right to get the sound, GD it! But thank goodness someone else has been recording Bynack's sounds as they do seem to have changed.

scylla, I am also sorry to not have caught the yellow moss sequence. :((  but thanks to you and moffer for catching Bynack's sounds later. :))

Gee, it is so quiet, except for the wind.

Thanks for all your pics and comment, all 9 pages !

Mary, what a lovely card, thank you.

Sheila  You might like to read the blog of 27th August 2010    It describes how  chick #2 and chick #3  left last year. Interesting how rarely the class of 2010 gets mentioned? Is that because when they had no names and no tags? When they flew away we knew that, that was the end.

Mary  Thanks for that lovely card.

Keith  Thanks for looking through the migration data. That is very useful.

Mary, thank you for the card.  I entirely agree with what you say.

Tiger, I think that what you say about the lack of names for the chicks in 2010 is right.  It bears out the use of anonymity and going incognito, actually.  The ospreys can teach us so much!!!

All of us are on tenterhooks anxiously awaiting important tracking information.  We are all trying to get to grips with the technology to do this, and helping each other to do it accurately.  That's really great, and is another reason why we should continue the DU thread for some time. 

All of you / us, who are interested in data.  I totally agree with Sandy that the LG team do a great job; we must cut them some slack etc., etc.  However, correct me if I am wrong, but migrating birds from any nest become just that - migrating birds.  As such they are in even greater danger than when they were being watched by all of us all the time.  There are many horrible things which can now hinder their progress.  Most are man-made, sadly.  Up to date information could put Tore's, Bynack's and Rothes', and all Roy's other tagged birds' lives in really much greater danger.  Out of date information is no use to hunters, is it?  The bird has gone by the time the point is shown on Google Earth.  Surely that is what we ALL want for these really precious, magnificent birds?

I'm therefore, happy to wait for new data points to be put on a map.  The longer we wait, the further the birds will be on their essential migration journey.

You may have noticed that at the bottome of the tracking map there are a series of pictures of Tore and Bynack at tagging. One of them shows clearly that Bynack was very relaxed during the tagging. See  pictures on this page.

Hazel b said:

You may have noticed that at the bottome of the tracking map there are a series of pictures of Tore and Bynack at tagging. One of them shows clearly that Bynack was very relaxed during the tagging. See  pictures on this page.

This page doesn't work for me. I click on a name, but nothing happens. What am doing wrong?

Hello Daisy Ray, you make a very good point.

I am horrified to think of hunters targeting ANY birds and probably a very valid consideration NOT to give out too much information if our beloved Osprey could be endangered.

Safer perhaps for us to be patient and receive the data when they have passed and are

well on their way.

Just that I will be so pleased to hear Tore has flown inland a bit and that she is not still over the sea!

Hazel b said:

Sheila  You might like to read the blog of 27th August 2010    It describes how  chick #2 and chick #3  left last year. Interesting how rarely the class of 2010 gets mentioned? Is that because when they had no names and no tags? When they flew away we knew that, that was the end.

Thanks for that Tiger.  Yes, it is interesting how we haven't really talked about last year's chicks in the same way.  Watching the 2010 vids of Odin and the chicks made me realise how very different in size they were too. Odin has been such a wonderful provider that the nest has experienced little in-nest fighting.  This year I feel I can say that there has been none, other than the odd sibling tiff that any household experiences!

Mary thank you so much for that lovely card and the wonderful sentiments with which I fully concur.  I think that 2011 will be the year to be remembered for so many snaps/snips/captures/videos which beautifully record the whole season.  There were very little which was missed, and could prove to be a fine record of almost every minute on the nest one way and another, which is a public record, unlike the ledger kept by the volunteers, who indeed do a wonderful job too.  All this of course includes our fine teams in the US and Australia who picked up the dark hours before some insomniacs joined us!  No doubt I will be saying this over and over again, BUT thank you to everyone who has contributed in any way at all to the events this season.  Without out you I, for one, would have missed such as lot.  If I had a glass in my hand I would raise it to the SPLENDID OSPREY TEAM OF 2011!  And we are not quite over yet.

Good gosh, it is blowing a gale up there!!! :-(

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