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
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Poor old Monty had to go out on his bike and look for a partner. Possibly Green did not have to look too much :)
Still he seems to rather like that other loose woman who Richard Thaxton takes care of.
Blue XD is obviously a swift osprey in the NImrod or Red 8T mold.
Tiger - I am sure if Monty had lived up in Speyside instead of Powys he would have had more opportunities to look around for loose women.
Should be giving your site a hit from EG in a few days - I rely on it and your blogs when away.
Unknown said:Should be giving your site a hit from EG in a few days - I rely on it and your blogs when away.
I do not think we have had a hit from EG so far. I will look for the yellow dot.
We have had a lot of hits today,
Unknown said: so why did we think that S18 and Blue XD were the same bird. Did Roy or an other originally intimate this?
so why did we think that S18 and Blue XD were the same bird. Did Roy or an other originally intimate this?
Well Roy said that Green J had the same partner since 2,000. Now for various reasons that pointed to Blue XD being S18. However there problems with that was that which even Roy Dennis could not explain. As from today we now seem to have the mystery but a lot of work has to be done to check it out.
Now in case anyone is asking. Here is the definitive answer as to why we thought that Blue XD and Green had been together since 2000. See Loch Garten Blog for Wednesday 28 March 2012
Hhmm all seems very contradictory to me so I will leave to those with far more experience, knowledge and information to hand - such as you Tiger - to solve the mystery - I am busy trying to solve the mystery of "Line of Duty"!!
Certainly from Richards blog it reads as if BlueXD and Green J have bred many chicks together, but Roys blog on his site would indicate that Blue XD and Green J had only been breeding for two years (only one of which was successful - 2010) at that point with 2012 being their third nesting year which would contradict "He's part of quite an old pair, his girl is Green J, an old female, but together they have been a very successful pairing, producing young in most if not all years, though not last year"
Lmac as a side comment - Line of Duty loving it :-) and I think I know what happened and who is behind it
Fascinating to get more info on BlueXD, am watching and waiting for even more from our detective here ;-)
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Blue XD started his migration yesterday
Thanks Tiger. Looking at his autumn migration, we could see him around 29 March!