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.
noc said: Hello everyone. I'm very surprised by Alba's news, but maybe I have misunderstood what Richard wrote... Does it mean that she has been flying for two days on the Atlantic ocean?
Hello everyone. I'm very surprised by Alba's news, but maybe I have misunderstood what Richard wrote... Does it mean that she has been flying for two days on the Atlantic ocean?
She left Portugal on 28 August and she arrived in Morocco today. Unfortunately the data does not give the time of the points. It looks like she was flying more than 24 hours but probably less than 48 hours over the ocean.
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Rachel R said: I'm trying not to get too excited about the signal from Bynack's transmitter. The last data from him wasn't at all encouraging, so it may be more likely that it has moved by human agency :( Meanwhile, great to see Alba's progress. No dithering from this lass now she's got started - I just hope she knows when to stop!
I'm trying not to get too excited about the signal from Bynack's transmitter. The last data from him wasn't at all encouraging, so it may be more likely that it has moved by human agency :(
Meanwhile, great to see Alba's progress. No dithering from this lass now she's got started - I just hope she knows when to stop!
It could be all the way to west Africa now.
The girls latest positions.
Loch Garten stats. and All the important links for LG.
Having just been looking at the GE update vs Richard's blog. I think he's got some of Alba's dates wrong, but assuming the times are right, what I think he means is this:
Hazel b said: Hello everyone. I'm very surprised by Alba's news, but maybe I have misunderstood what Richard wrote... Does it mean that she has been flying for two days on the Atlantic ocean?
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Many thanks, Tiger! I'm so so happy she has reached land. I hope she is OK... she must be exhausted.
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I agree Sue. That is exactly what I thought too.
So did Alba fly for 42 hours over the ocean?
Hazel b said: So did Alba fly for 42 hours over the ocean?
From the information we have, it appears possible that she landed somewhere near Lisbon during the night of 28th/29th - though she still covered 390 odd miles in 20 hours.
Unknown said: So did Alba fly for 42 hours over the ocean?
She is likely to have broken records because only Nimrod and Red 8T have moved swifter than her.
Does anybody know the wind speed and direction where Alba was? She might have had some assistance.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.