This Topic has been set up to follow the Autumn 2012 migration and wintering of satellite tracked ospreys, other than Caledonia and Alba from Loch Garten, who are followed on this thread, Tracking Caledonia & Alba
This topic replaces Satellite Tracked Ospreys (non-LG) Mar-Aug 2012
N.B. There are still some missing details (and possibly birds) which I will add once the information becomes available.
Thanks Alan for the updates with HFW birds and a Very Happy New year to you and all that provide a great service in updating us all very well appreciated.
I also look forward to hearing of Morven also of HFW back at her new Eyrie come April (Normally late around April 12 after her long holidays on route in Northern Spain) - Roy built a new eyrie for her in March 2012 and she took to it well and settled in quickly. I doubt if we will hear from her until she returns as her transmitter may now be extinct.
I think Roy will be delighted if he gets into April with only the loss of Stan.
Keith, if Morven's transmitter is no longer working properly do you think it is likely that RD will try and catch Morven and remove the transmitter from her.
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MARY - Morven's transmitter has been intermittent now for a number of years. She has carried it since July 2008 (Again Adult caught at age 5 years). I think we may be at a stage if we see Morven back around Forres and she will only be 10 YO this summer that her transmitter may just fall away.
It would have been nice to see the progress of Stan as he was offspring of Morven her only chick in 2012 probably due to the weather.
I believe Roy always wanted to tag a family and initially set this goal out with Logie. Roy did attempt to catch Nimrod after his aerial snapped but sometimes these Ospreys are very difficult to trap as adults and am aware that Roy can spend days on end trying to catch a particular bird. I think he spent the entire summer trying to re-trap Nimrod.
KEITH - Thank you for your reply. Will be interesting to see if the transmitter does fall off. Its so sad that Stan disappeared without any proper explanation especially when he had made such a remarkable migration down to the Cape Verde Islands. Red 8T has had his transmitter on since 2009 so we will just have to wait and see if the transmitter falls off him as well within the next few years. Do you think Nimrod has perished? nothing heard from Aug 2011 (I think), I know the aeriel was broken so no signals, is it possible that he did make it back in 2012 but just wasnt sighted? Its another mystery where we dont have a conclusion as to what happened to him.
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Great to hear they are safe - long may it continue so.
BlueYD update:
"Our second Osprey chick Blue YD is still doing really well in Senegal. Over the Christmas period he remained in his favourite area of the Senegal river, but on the 30th of December he headed for the coast again. In an amazing two hours, he covered the 160 km or so to the coast, and then cruised down to a southern most point near his previous visit on the 15th November.
Over the New year Blue YD has been fishing the sea coast, roosting at night in the dunes, and on the 2nd January he was back at the large salt-water lagoon near Gbar again. This seems to be becoming a pattern with this bird- a couple of weeks on the river, followed by a few days at the seaside!"
Latest from Rob Bierregaard :
"Everyone's tucked in safely down in South America.
I'm off to Israel in February for a brainstorming session with the European Osprey trackers to think about how we can improve our educational outreach efforts. Should be an exciting trip.
It's going to be a busy spring!
Happy New Year,
Rob
By "educational outreach" I presume he means educating populations that receive northern hemisphere birds. And that must be significantly the result of information provided by trackers over the past so many years.
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Scylla : That is the way I take it as well. Tracking is beneficial in making contacts along the migration flyways.