The Osprey Chat Thread for September 2011

Thanks I wonder if Leri and Dulas will make as quick a journey as Einion?

Thanks very much MOFFER.  Don't bet on it PATILY  :)

09 is ready for Africa.

AW has made it. He's in Guinea :o)

Let us hope Dulas and Leri make  it to the south coast berfore the horrendous weather sets in .

Wonderful news about AW and O9 is making a very good route line indeed.

Do we know more about Joe? All we know about Ozwold is that on  7th September he was still in Scotland (oh dear- 80mph winds coming up tomorrow up there, please be south - much- of the border dear bird)

Thanks folks for the updates on the ospreys, Rutland, Dyfi, and LG (although it looks like our ospreys are still where they were yesterday)

Update from Dyfi Osprey Project

‎20.00 - There are currently three fish on the nest - Monty has done what he's been doing all summer, hoarding food before bad weather comes. Incredible how animals do this.

Einion's data will be completely downloaded later tonight but the provisional coordinates we have is that he has ony moved around 70 miles south of Casablanca where he was on Thursday - maybe he's filling up on fish before the desert leg of his migration. Ems

This where the birds that I have been watching are (as far as I know)

Oswold, re 6th September, still in Angus, Scotland.

Red 8T, re 8th September, Nr Newbury, England

Dulas and Leri, 10th September, still at home in Wales

Tore, re 6th September, nr Plymouth, England

Bynack, re 6th Sepember, Eastern France

Beatrice, re 6th September at her winter site in Southern Spain

Joe, re 6th September, Luna reservoir, Northern Spain

09, re 10th September, just north of Gibraltar in Southern Spain

Einion, re 10th September, south of Casablanca, Morocco

AW, re 10th september, at his winter site in Guinea. Given his speed and stamina, I think we should call him Arnie :o)

AW was going so fast, he overshot the land and ended up flying out into the Atlantic. He had to do a U turn LOL. What a magnificent Osprey to travel 3277 miles in 14 days, wow.

He's back in his winter quarters in Guinea.

moffer said:

This where the birds that I have been watching are (as far as I know)

AW, re 10th september, at his winter site in Guinea. Given his speed and stamina, I think we should call him Arnie :o)

~Moffer~, I am trying to catch up with the forum posts after being on holiday for over 2 weeks, so your post is invaluable to have all the birds listed like this it is so much easier to follow, so a big thank you from me for doing this.    Its just so great to see how well all the Osprey's are doing on their migration, hope every one of them reaches their wintering grounds without any incidents.

Great to see you back, Mary, hope you had a lovely holiday.  Yes, MOFFER is a star! :-)