This Topic has been set up to follow the Spring 2012 migration, and summer activities, of satellite tracked ospreys, excluding Rothes and Tore from Loch Garten, who are followed on this thread.
It replaces this earlier thread, Satellite Tracked Ospreys (non-LG) Aug 2011 - Feb 2012.
Worrying news from AW www.ospreys.org.uk/what-has-happened-to-aw
Unknown said: Worrying news from AW www.ospreys.org.uk/what-has-happened-to-aw
Yes I was just coming to report that :(
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Let's hope he turns up shortly!
This is so sad - so close to leaving to come back
Is 2012 going to be a rotten luck year? Not shaping up good so far!
Let us hope that he is ok and that his transmiter has fallen off.
Are the Ospreys that has returned early? Or is it usually about this time they return? I can't remember what time they normaly come back.
If nothing goes right, go left! :-)
Sandra P said: Let us hope that he is ok and that his transmiter has fallen off. Are the Ospreys that has returned early? Or is it usually about this time they return? I can't remember what time they normaly come back.
See News from other nests 2011
Yes,, not exactly the news we wanted to hear. Whatever AW's fate is, we won't now get to know whether he was going to return the way he came or take a more direct route back to RW.
As far as I know he was the only tracked UK osprey to have a two-centre winter holiday - not such a good idea after all.
I still wonder about Nethy and Malachie and their transmiters. I still hope that theirs were faulty and that they both will return this year. I think Nethy is age four and Malachie is three?
Nethy transmitter was certainly NOT FAULTY - it continued to transmit weekly data both on 11th and 20th March 2009. Both showed no satellite movement and it looked like Nethy had certainly been lost. An outside chance her satellite may have fallen off and unless she returns to Scotland and her leg ring is identified the best can be said is Nethy is missing presumed dead.
Mallachie slightly different - In December Mallachie’s data didn't come through. This may be due to a transmitter type problem, not a bird problem. When there is a bird type problem we get data - it just shows no movement or an inability to get a 3D fix. When there is no data at all, that's because something in the transmitter or satellite download isn't working.
Blue AW problem appears to follow the pattern similar to that of LERI, BYNACK and NETHY.