I guess that Blue XD is now set to be part of Loch Garten History. He deserves a page by himself.
Do people have data on his exact arrival time and some videos and pictures.
There has been a blog regarding him here on 28 Mar 2012 5:56 PM
There is still confusion as to his identity but he is said to be the long term partner of Green J or otherwise known as S06
So Blue/White XD may be S18 but there are certain problems with that.
S06 and S18 also parented a chick translocated to Rutland viz. T04
I wrote about Green J here on 3 March 2012
Tiger Signature
Limpy said: I bet Blue XD gets back well before Odin,
I bet Blue XD gets back well before Odin,
I think that you are right there. Blue XD is probably on his way while Odin is probably still sunning himself. Blue XD learned in 2001 that it does not to pay to be late otherwise the female will stray.
my money is on odin to be earlier this year,after him being later the last2
Hazel b said:Blue XD learned in 2001 that it does not to pay to be late otherwise the female will stray.
He has been taking advantage of that fact quite handily in the last few years :D
Rachel R said:He has been taking advantage of that fact quite handily in the last few years :D
It is not without good reason that my favourite saying is "To every advantage there is a disadvantage"
I am hoping that it is a case of no news is good news. If Roy had got bad news about either BlueXD or YellowHA or GreenJ, I suspect he would have wanted to communicate it, as he has always done in the cases of other ospreys.
Chocoholix shiny new 2018 Interactive Osprey & Chick Chart! (with clickable links!)
When I saw this thread "alive" I thought there must be news of BlueXD. I'm very fond of him but I do hope he and EJ give each other a miss this season, it really puts a damper on the early weeks. Poor Odin :-(
IMAGICAT
News of Blue XD
Wow what a change of story?
Yes, we get to know the real facts at last :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Oh how interesting - and not far from Breagha!!! now I wonder...
So......just trying to get to grips with this new info.
Whatever we may have thought in the past, Blue XD is NOT the same male osprey as S18, whose tracking details are here on the Rutland archive site.
They were both caught by Roy at Rothiemurchus fish farm on 12th August 2000, when XD was ringed and S18 was tagged. However, other key details are different:
Darvic rings - S18 was said to have a black/white Darvic of 8X
Nesting with Green J - S18 became Green J's mate in 2000, Blue XD did not join her till 2010.
They have different wintering sites - S18 in Saloum Delta, XD in Casamance.
This also means that Blue XD has not been tracked before.
.......is that right?