Dunedin male:
Webcam is on at Glaslyn. You will still need to refresh every 5 minutes I think:
www.bbc.co.uk/.../ospreys.shtml
As of 16th, it is reported that the Forest of Orleans is now at 20 ospreys present. The reports are difficult to translate due to the style in which they are written. I had a go at the previous one which in the end, turned out too garbled and would only have confused you.
The 16th goes like this with some editing! This report detail covers the observatory at l'Etang du Ravoir.
Friday March 16: Headline: `' 02'' a female, still without a mate…... A score of ospreys now occupy some of the nests located in national forest of Orleans and new couples are formed or reformed… As for the female `' 02'', she still awaits her usual partner, the brave `' 8Z'', on the area of view from the observatory… Premature joy (in any case for us) this afternoon towards 15H00 when a male came to be perched for one moment on the nest beside her. Not ringed according to a photograph made at the time as he flew away, this intruder moved away after a long, high climb to an altitude, above the water. Towards 16H30, `' 02'' leaves, returning about twenty minutes later with a pike which she had obviously fished for herself… After it had stopped struggling, she started to slowly eat it on the bent branch which constitutes one of her favourite perches beside her nest. Low in the water, a couple of coots and one starts to collect small branches on a protruding stump located close to bank on the right side of the observatory. For some time, a couple of mute swans move with grace in the same area. Will they try to reproduce? Further in the middle of the stakes (posts), two crested grebes parade, on the water as a couple. Spring is announced…...
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Thanks jsb.
Very latest from the Etang du Ravoir - the male 8Z returned to join female 02 around 4.30 pm yesterday 17th.
The photos taken so far this season are on this page.
On Rolf Wahl's site, he has posted some photos John Wright took in Gambia of another osprey which nests in the Forest of Orleans, known as "the male" after the symbol on his Darvic ring.
2 ospreys seen on the nest at Lake Barkley:
www.keepky.org/index.html
Sue, it is great the way they identified orange 'the male', on his migration.
'Saturday March 17: `' 8Z'' is back!' report is rather garbled in english, I may have time later to unpick it to make sense.
An osprey has been sighted on the glaslyn nest. Not identified yet.
See Glaslyn cam
Tiger Signature
Thanks TIGER - Maybe Orange 11 - he turned up 17/3/2011 last season and his mate was not far away after that. Going out now but will check for confirmation later.
Unknown said: Thanks TIGER - Maybe Orange 11 - he turned up 17/3/2011 last season and his mate was not far away after that. Going out now but will check for confirmation later.
Yes they are the fastest in the UK.
An osprey at DPOF this morning. Sad that the site that created all this excitement still has ospreys. Still has fans but sadly no cam. A warning to everyone as to what can happen.
According to Dyfi (just posted on facebook) it is indeed Orange 11.
Very encouraging that the first of the known UK breeding birds is back on time!