Hi everyone. If you didn't check the last few pages of the previous week, it was very busy. I'm going to catch up all the latest posts after dinner.
Hi Alan, you and all the family and team were on BBC4 last night. IPlayer link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008lz78/All_About_Thunderbirds/
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Much easier to follow page 15 – and I don’t think I have yet said “Good Morning” everyone (for morning read anything else appropriate!).
Alan – as you say, we are learning so much from each other as well as sharing our joys and sorrows.
Tiger & Alan - Osprey genealogy is fascinating as we gradually learn more and more from ringing, tagging and generally having so many people interested in observing.
Gary - which time-zone are you in? - you seem to appear very early!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
jsb - I like the seasonal avatar - apologies if I have failed to notice it before!
FAB jsb: I was wondering when that was going to be screened. As usual we were the last to know. Off to watch it now.
Yes, I got it courtesy of Google images, also just noticed that pussy cats are migrating to Spain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6823579/British-cat-sails-to-Spain.html
That's funny JSB.
OG, I am in the Eastern Time Zone, so 5 hours behind you . I normally check my machine anytime from 6.30am my time onwards. Hope you are getting on OK today without OH around.
Hello everyone.Diane: That's a fascinating site about US earthquakes. Thanks for the link.Caerann: Very sad news about the whooping crane. Just did a quick search on google images and they're beatiful birds. I can't understand how anybody would want to shoot one.Aquilareen: Love the Scottish 12 Days of Christmas.jsb: Like the avatar. Very Christmasy.Happy wednesday everyone.Paul.
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Hi OG I so agree with you about osprey genealogy. There are just so many things to be found out and as you say now greatly enhanced by the internet. When I started to watch streaming webcams back in 2004 I realised we were seeing things not in the books. But then the writers of those books did not have streaming webcams. So much has been learned.
I really would like to get to know more about the earlier birds at Loch Garten. Ollie was the male in command for 11 years but very few people seem to remember him now. We did have a big Ollie fan who used post but has been missing in 2009. I do fear for him.
I am sure I have seen a picture of Ollie but for some reason I cannot put my hand on it. It would be good if someone could post one.
Interestingly it was probably a grandaughter of Ollie that ousted EJ from maritial bliss with OVS in 2003. Of course EJ came to Loch Garten and we all know what happened then when she paired up with Henry.
Oh by the way I have said on a number of occasions that no British juvenile has yet carried a transmitter to Africa and back. Well SSK may have done. We just do not know where she went after her transmitter failed. It wonderful to find out.
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Tiger : I forgot to say that sunset is slightly later today. Yippee its getting lighter in the evening.
Also 32(05) is a great favourite of mine having seen him several times in the summer at Lagoon 4. There are high hopes that he will returne and breed there next year.
Unknown said: Tiger : I forgot to say that sunset is slightly later today. Yippee its getting lighter in the evening. Also 32(00) is a great favourite of mine having seen him several times in the summer at Lagoon 4. There are high hopes that he will returne and breed there next year.
Also 32(00) is a great favourite of mine having seen him several times in the summer at Lagoon 4. There are high hopes that he will returne and breed there next year.
Yes lighter evenings are here.
Didn't 32 (00) manage to win that female over 5R? I thought that big brothers tended to win over little brothers?