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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She'll be home by the time he checks out their nest. Hopefully ;-)
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Isn't weird that the season we know where Blue XD is as he has now got a tracker on him Odin beats him home. At least we will see where he goes to when he gets home.
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Magnus Ullman
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Blue XD is home
Well old Blue XD is still around and catching fish.
Maybe Old but he still raised 3 chicks with his mate this year.
www.flickr.com/.../bryanwatts There are some Pics of Blue Xd here as as well as some possibly of Odin.
Great photos bryan, thank you for posting them!
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Thank you for sharing your photos - they are stunning!!!! Just away to have another look at pictures of Odin to check his markings.
I have every faith in you, Granny Smith. You're very good at these things. Personally, I have great difficulty in translating the photo of a wet osprey into the dry one we see on the nest. First I check the leg ring absence, then the relative whiteness. Buff patch on the breast and curly dark feathers around the lower neck up to the head. Head markings are unique to him with the quirky 'coo's lick' a reasonable distance from the eye. Then I get lost. Ospreyitis at its best. ;-)
I have posted 4 images of Blue Xd in the photos section.