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.
Sue C thank you and you have kept this thread going and very much appreciated. Caledonia is doing well and wonderful to know :)
Caledonia seems to be in a good place and hope she remains safe there! Thanks for keeping us all updated. Those must be orange groves there in the pic, looks like knitting!
Thanks SUE Another encouraging report
The oranges in those groves tasted really nice :)))
Thank You Sue C for keeping us updated with Caledonia's tracking information, its so good to see that she is still doing well.
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Thanks Sue C for keeping us updated. It would be wonderful to see a pic of Caledonia again but just to know she is doing well is fantastic news.
Pip they will be the best oranges you will have for ever no doubt :)
A video for Caledonia - a school of grey mullet filmed from Triana bridge in the centre of Seville
Interesting that it's been a couple of months now, since she has gone into the city to fish. Presumably she just doesn't feel the need to, maybe because the main Guadalquivir river has calmed down since the rainy season finished.
My goodness SUE, that's a shoal and a half! It is great that Caledonia continues to do well in Seville. Many thanks for the updates, it is really appreciated. It will be interesting to see what she does when the autumn migration comes thru.
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Sue C that is a brilliant video and do not know how you find these :)
Sheila and everyone, I hope she stays but could she migrate south and will be on tender hooks. I cannot see why she would want to move but is there a possibility.
Google Earth Update for Caledonia, up to June 26th.
She is mostly around her usual haunts on the Guadalquivir, but has made 3 recent trips to the Gergal reservoir, north of Guillena. This is a round trip of about 20 miles from her roost.
According to the embalses.net site, the Gergal reservoir, which was full to overflowing in late winter/early spring, is now at just under 75% of capacity, which may possibly make fishing easier.
Or maybe it's just more pleasant than the hot stuffy plains around Seville - maximum temperatures have been up to 35 degrees C recently, and hotter than coastal Senegal.