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.
09 is catching up:
www.ospreys.org.uk/09-is-catching-up
Great news and a good read about 09 Alan.
Thanks :-)
If nothing goes right, go left! :-)
Alan, I am so happy to read that report. Rutland must be congratulated on their prompt and very informative updates.
Alan much relieved after reading the report from Rutland, they really are on the ball there.
Margobird
Fabulous photo of Beatrice yesterday.
Thank you KEITH and ALAN for the info and maps. Am unhappy to hear about the Osprey you saw Keith but (hopefully) assume it later went properly on its way. What can a bird do for crying out - is it really, just ''luck of the draw'' in regard to safe passage with these sand storms?
Thankyou for the wonderful photo of Beatrice showing the tracker and I, too, am grateful to Rutland for keeping us up to date. :-)
The Rutland account of 09 following the ridge as a navigation aid is fascinating, and brings to mind a thought which occurred when I was on a cruise on the Nile in early October 2010. I saw three ospreys between Luxor and Aswan, including one (pictured in my avatar) catching a fish with what seemed great ease. Migrating ospreys from the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe don't have to battle across the Sahara like our birds - they can take a trip along a flowing snack bar which is several thousand miles long. I wonder if this has a positive effect on the return rate from migration - or do the Nile crocodiles which are said to predate on ospreys keep the balance. I'd love to know, but probably never will.
Report from Roy Dennis as at yesterday 21st March.
Beatrice still at her stopover on the Adour
No further signals from Morven's dodgy transmitter, but this is not unusual. She was a couple of days ahead of Rutland's 09, so I would guess she is in Spain and may next show up in reports from her stopover on the north coast.
Red 8T in the Mauritanian desert.
Rothiemurchus has not yet left his wintering site. Although he is now an adult, he doesn't seem to be in a great hurry to get home and breed!
I notice that "A Life of Ospreys" is still available on Roy's site. An excellent book.
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