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.
They are indeed and I also am surprised at the people I have met who are avid followers. I wonder too if Blue 44 has stayed in Spain and is safe despite no contact from him.
Hopefully, as more contacts are established around Spain, Africa and other regions, there will be a chance of a follow-up with tracked birds. Tempo I feel the same re Blue 44; also there are others such as Enion and Brynack who I feel may still be out there. My dream is to be able to see them turn up on the 'Gone but not forgotten' thread as ''No longer missing in action''. What a celebration that would be!
mims I honestly believe Bynack will turn up and Enion could be ok also. These are the two I think maybe might turn up. I know probably wishful thinking but to me Bynack is ok.
No matter what it is fabulous news on Caledonia and so exciting.
Oh it's brilliant re Caledonia B&B, if only we were there with them!!
| wish them all luck and wish I was going there this weekend :) how exciting for them
Makes you feel like hopping on a plane and joining them for the search doesn't it.....
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Copying a couple of posts from the blog:
"Dear Osprey bloggers,
My name is Manu, the Spanish bird guide who´s going to help Valerie and fellows on their Caley quest. Although I have not been able to see her yet, I have been exploring her roosting area in the river Rivera de Huelva and think I know where she spends the night.
This is one of the perches I suspect she uses, a dead eucaliptus on the edge of the river: uo0cqa.bay.livefilestore.com/.../WP_000279.jpg
I spoke to Roberto in the morning and he passed very useful information to me about her main fisihing spot. It will be hard to get a close view of Caley due to the thick vegetation in the edge of the river, its short width and number of meanders.
I am hopeful anyway as we will try our best! Send all your positive energy to us.
I wish a very nice and safe journey into Spain to Valerie, Pip and Alison.
You will hear of us back our adventure.
Have a good weekend"
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and Roberto, posting as Muri
Hi evereybody,
I am Roberto Muriel from Sevilla. Finally I was able to register and join the blog after some troubles. Hot news, this evening I went for a walk with a friend of mine, Jorge Echegaray, to one of the possible Caley's resting areas. Manu is right, not easy to spot possible perches without disturbing the bird due to the close canopy of eucalyptus and poplars. So, I recommend some caution in the approach to the area. Curiously, the meanders of the Rivera de Huelva river are pretty nice places as resting area (also cormorant and herons) taking into account that the surroundings are highly humanized with orange grooves, crops, power lines and roads.
The most important, we saw “Caley” twice during the evening (17:50 and 19:00). The first time, we saw her at close-medium distance flying north to southeast while crossing the Guadalquivir river and heading to the park of El Alamillo and the river channel in the city. We saw the antenna of the transmitter clearly. The second time was far away with poor light conditions coming from the park El Alamillo to the North (we suppose it was her), though we were not able to follow her to the roosting place. Anyway, it was really fantastic and lucky to see her again. Furthermore, we could see other interesting species including an eagle owl disturbed by a short-eared owl and three yellow-billed unknown terns (possible royal tern, maybe lesser-crested tern).
I hope they are lucky enough to get good pictures of Caley, because I assume they will see her for sure ;)
Best regards,
Roberto
I cannot get that link to the photo to open up on either the Main Blog or in SueC's post above - it says Website requires you to log in. Could someone who can see the photo please post it here with copyright to whoever's photo it is.
Mary I can't see it either. Perhaps he has to do something to make it public and hasn't. Could be a SkyDrive account.
Just checked and yes, livefilestore.com is where Microsoft stores SkyDrive account files.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
I am sorry ladies. I have just managed how to make the picture public. This link should work.
That is one of Caledonia´s perches in the river Rivera de Huelva, La Algaba (Seville): http://sdrv.ms/Xwhnp1
I am very excited about tomorrow´s search.
Kind regards,