Satellite Tracked Ospreys (non-LG) Mar-Aug 2012 CLOSED

Sue, I was thinking of the 2011 autumn migration, when he passed close to Sirte, which was in turmoil at the time. It seemed such a purposeful action to make a 90 degree turn. However, probably of no significance if he normally goes more west on his northern journeys.

Beatrice is home:

www.roydennis.org/.../index.asp

Thanks Alan. Great news for both of them :)

Thanks Alan, so happy that its looking good for both of them, & Red 8T has his missus waiting on him. 

Unknown said:

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!   

Would he actually see Sicily from north Africa?

Hazel b said:

Would he actually see Sicily from north Africa?

Mobile phones interfere with Jukka s GPS fixes getting through:

"5 April

The same situation as the previous day, as well as previous years was repeated: The information cloud caused by mobile phones and other traffic over Europe stopped the weak signals from coming through and GPS fixes from making it. Luckily, the information traffic died down enough during the night for the fixes to come through. Jukka settled down for the night at 19 o’clock GMT in Poland, 122 km south-southwest of Warsaw."

Unknown said:

Would he actually see Sicily from north Africa?