This thread has been set up to follow the travels of Caledonia and Alba, the young ospreys raised at Loch Garten in 2012.
Their mother is “EJ”, the resident female at Loch Garten since 2003; there is some doubt about the identity of their biological father, given EJ’s dalliance with a male from a neighbouring nest, Blue XD, both before and after the return of her regular partner Odin, who raised them.
Caledonia hatched on 16th May and Alba on 18th May; they both fledged on 14th July.
This is a link to the Loch Garten blog describing the ringing and satellite tagging.
Caledonia’s ring is Blue/White AA1, reading downwards. Alba’s is Blue/White AA2, reading upwards.
Following the tracking
This page gives a quick overview of the routes on a map, which will be more useful once they start migrating.
If you want to look at the routes in more detail on Google Earth, this page contains instructions on setting up your PC to do this.
This blog contains some useful information about how the tracking works – we are now on a 3-day reporting period.
Keith, a lot of people, men mainly, fish there and the fish are huge! :-)
If nothing goes right, go left! :-)
Tiger, I have seen a video last year of Ospreys stopping there to fish!
Just in and thought to check, glad I did and delighted both Cally and Alba are doing well. Let's hope they stop for a break and feed soon. The difficult part of the journey is still ahead, unless of course they choose to stop in Spain. Tiger/Keith do you know if all juveniles go to Africa on first migration and then choose to stay on the continent in later years or do some never go as far as Africa in the first year?
Tiger, I would think there are more important links to put, rather than Ospreys fishing. :-)
Sandra P said: Tiger, I have seen a video last year of Ospreys stopping there to fish!
Yes but that does not mean Alba did. The satellite track shows no evidence of her fishing.
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Tiger,
I don't think we can be sure about that, as LG have not been plotting enough "points" to show such detailed movements.
OMG, OK, she didn't fish there! :-)
Unknown said: Tiger, I don't think we can be sure about that, as LG have not been plotting enough "points" to show such detailed movements.
Yes but in the past the juveniles have gone quite a while before catching their first fish.
Tiger, they cannot give us every detail of their flight links or whatever!
Hopefully Richard will confirm their routes tomorrow, but I reckon that Cally spent the night of 25/26 by this lake between Angers and Tours, which also looks a good fishing spot: