Satellite Tracked Ospreys (non-LG) Aug 2012 - Sep 2014

Patily six days ago Blue YD was only 2 - 3 miles from Ceulan's position. Amazingly close.

I wonder how many other ospreys are in that area.

ChloeB said:

Patily six days ago Blue YD was only 2 - 3 miles from Ceulan's position. Amazingly close.

I wonder how many other ospreys are in that area.

According to the site Ornithondar, written by Frédéric Bacuez, there were counts done on the 30th January 2011 & also on the 3 january 2012 on & around the river, from the sea up to Saint-Louis. Each time the count was in excess of one Osprey per km of river. (27-29 on 24km & 19-21 on 15km). That's a lot of Ospreys!

Thank you Noisette. Perhaps that is why YD decided to return after his excursion. Maybe there were too many other birds near the coast.

Ceulan still approx 60 miles from BlueYD:

They are going to make another attempt to find Ilze s tag in Italy:

"We are hopeful now that the transmitter of Latvian Osprey Ilze will be found - Commitee Against Birds Slaughter (Germany) just organized this trip to find the exact place and tag as well."

Just been reading about 57375 first migration. Apparently he went 10 days without eating:

"After another stop in Sweden, southeast Hultsfred, October 9 to 13 took off at a fast pace towards the south-southwest and via Germany reached Troyes over 15 mil southeast of Paris October 15. Here he stopped at a small but probably fiskrik lake before the trip to the Mediterranean and Africa started October 30. On 4 november crossed the Mediterranean Sea by air route straight over Mallorca at noon and arriving to Béjaïa in the Algerian coast at ten o'clock in the evening (in complete darkness). To gjusen put on some jet fuel in France was quite apparent when it undoubtedly went further south 5 November. Now expecting a precarious flight over the Sahara and 10 november at 22 degrees north latitude changed the direction of flight, this is the middle of the worst of the desert, and he ruled the increasingly over the course to the northwest at a point 70 mil from savannah and 80 mil from the coast. On the afternoon of November 13, he arrived finally to the coast north of Cape Bojador in Western Sahara (Morocco). This means that he flew ten day trips by an average of 399.8 km / day without eating! It all resulted in a slightly different winter quarters, at least if we look at what we ornithologists expect. In fact, it is enough that there is plenty of wintering ospreys along the west coast of Africa since fish is plentiful and many young gjusar should drive towards the coast. The route took gjusen coincides well with the sand storms moving from dune field in central Mali and on to the coast and out over the Atlantic (ie clockwise in a semicircle). "

I was interested in "Thatch"

I am open minded but at least some of these juveniles have survived but none past three years old and is a common denominator, None make it?  Rothiemurchus is 3 yrs old and hope he makes it next year.

www.bioweb.uncc.edu/.../thatch2012.htm

Different enviroment but none have made it passed 3 yrs of age.

edited again the lucky ones. There is a common denominator here and have thoughts. Going to look for a 3 yr old the list is there all.

Update on BlueYD: No change:

Ceulan and BlueYD now 55.13 miles apart: