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.
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.
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Beatrice is home:
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Red8T still in the home counties:
Thanks Alan. Great news for both of them :)
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Thanks Alan, so happy that its looking good for both of them, & Red 8T has his missus waiting on him.
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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!
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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?
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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?
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Well it is a bit of simple mathematics! How high does an osprey have to climb for the horizon to be more than 90 miles away?
Or maybe a ready reckoner.
1,627 m. above sea level. Not impossible, but unlikely I would have thought.
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