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.
NEW BLOG from Richard.
Cally exploring but all is fine.
Great to see that all is/was well with Cally, now I can get back to worrying until the next blog - we're always out-of-date.
IMAGICAT
Wonderful news Caledonia is doing fine. Lovely Caledonia keep it up girl :)
Caledonia latest plots 14th to 21st November:
So sad hardly anyone is interested. Caledonia stunning and so pleased she is doing ok.
edit thank you alan
Unknown said:So sad hardly anyone is interested
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Unknown said: So sad hardly anyone is interested. Caledonia stunning and so pleased she is doing ok.
I think everyone is interested {{{B&B}}} I feel guilty about posting just to say "great, thank you, so-and-so", because members looking at the list of topics will see a new post and think I've posted something new and interesting, then they take the time to click into the thread and see that it's only scylla saying nothing much, and they'll hate me... :o
I'll have myself in tears in a minute ;-D But you get what I mean. Probably lots of members don't post for the same sort of reason.
Cally was a star from the beginning, our hopes rest on her to be EJ and Odin's success story after so many losses.
B&B: Caledonia, along with the others are all followed on the summary thread. Also, there is one thing you could try, to 'get it together with Cally', which is on GE, select her path, then use the 'Play Tour' function and you can have a virtual flight around Seville with her, which is good fun, seeing all the places she has been. That's what I was doing a couple of days ago. :o)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Thanks JSB, I will give it a go but gave up last time as my points are not up to date.
Yes Scylla Caledonia a star from the beginning and really hope she stays safe and our hopes reat with her to be a LG sucess :) You could not have said that any better
I know I am new to these forums but I try and follow everything on them as best I can. It is excellent that Caledonia is doing well. I have facebook set up trying to follow Dyfi, Highland Wildlife, Lake District and blogs on LOTL and Loch Garten. Ceulan on the Dyfi facebook page gets lots of comments. On here there are not as many on the LG girls. I was really upset about Alba and wanted somebody to go and find her body but I still pray for Caledonia to be the first tracked bird to return to Loch Garten.. I hope this makes sense.