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.
The article for The Daily Record was written a few days back from information earlier in the week - Articles like this take a day or two to appear in The Daily Record - we may find that Caledonia may not be in Spain and Alba moved on altough I am hoping for and expecting Alba at the River Senegal.
Get ready to see Google Earth at 7pm.
Tiger Signature
It's actually about 7.03pm, but what's 3 minutes between friends ;o)
Loch Garten stats. and All the important links for LG.
GE may have some problems if we all try to refresh at the same time!
From Richard Thaxton
We have fresh data on our birds (all is well) which you'll see up-loaded on the map tonight but an accompanying blog will not be posted until tomorrow sometime, a final sign-off blog from Team LG 2012, who leave on Saturday. I'll leave it to them to give you the latest.
Caledonia story just been on the news but the visulal shots were the wrong nest and bird - They showed Lochter and LOTL.
Alba is in Senegal close to the Gambia, Cally is still in Spain
Has Cally found a good place to fish for a while?
Alba
Cally stopover
thank you both moffer and tiger :) and now i can breath a sigh of relief about alba but caledonia is keeping us on our toes with a holiday in spain! ;-)