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.
Tempo : Nimrod has spent a few winters there so I think it must be prime osprey country especially now the adults have left.
Preliminary update for Jukka:
"Once again, the sending of information 3.4. in the morning come to a very inaccurate (accuracy classes A and B) Doppler readings gave preliminary information on the progress of Jukka's journey. According to them, Jukka was 3.4. Croatia in the morning, about 100 kilometers east of Zagreb"
North Fork Bob more than half way home :
www.bioweb.uncc.edu/.../bob2012.htm
Good news from Rob Bierregarrd
Tiger Signature
Dulas still in the same area:
Einion : No change, very settled:
Jukka is just south west of Warsaw as at 07:00 on 06.04.12:
Good old Jukka. Slow but sure.
But this is why Jukka doesn't rush home. The fishing pool at Pohtiolampi is still surrounded by snow - and I think that's kept free of ice, when the lakes are still frozen.
I've just been reading up on Jukka's migration. Interesting that he took a 90 degree turn on approaching Libya. I wondered if he remembered the frightening chaos there when he crossed over on his autumn migration.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Rach
I don't think so. From Jukka's "home page" you can display all of Jukka's tracked spring migrations on Google Earth and the spring ones have all been more westerly than the autumn ones, passing through Tunisia. There were hostilities in Libya in Spring 2011, but not 2010. He seems to want to minimise the sea crossing in the spring - maybe because he knows that Sicily is an island and wants to make sure he hits it!