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

Have just read and its so sad and to me again shows the advantages of tagging.    

Thanks Alan, so sad to hear how cutch may have died, but good to know people were out so quick to find and recover him.

Unknown said:

Latest from Rob Bierregaard:

Lots of movement by our satellite-tagged Ospreys. Cutch died in Colombia but body & PTT recovered. Details on his map. http://bit.ly/I2OR71  

A very sad but interesting story. Once again tags gives us valuable information.

Ilmari crossing the Mediterranean sea heading for Libya:

Swedish osprey 57375 has moved from Germany into Belgium. This bird certainly gets around:

Stan had over four days on Iberian peninsula to feed. From arrival 1800hrs GMT, 12th until he left, before being recorded  pm south of Gran Canaria on the 18th. I was making sure that it was unlikely that he was 'running on empty', when he arrived on the CV islands, which if he had been, then he could have been too weak to fish. However, since he was able to island hop, we should be able to assume, that he arrived in petty good condition, despite the long sea crossing. So assuming that sea fishing off the islands' coastlines did not present a problem for him, we can then say, that there is no reason to assume that he was weak or hungry i.e. in good condition.

Lake District Osprey Project

2 minutes ago

We have received news from our colleagues looking for number 13, this is their latest report:

'Sergio Moran (Rescue Centre Manager), and Pep Canto (Natural Park Ranger) and their helpers conducted searches and combed the area but have found nothing, neither transmitter or remains in the area of 13's last signal co-ordinates'

This is good news as it means there is no immediate evidence to suggest 13 is dead, but bad, that we still do not know where he is or if he is still alive. Fingers crossed it is a transmitter problem.

Just read this on FB, you beat me to it Alan.

So we are no better off then. Again, wonderful to have people out there willing to search like this. Hats off to them!

Thank you for passing on that report, ALAN, I wouldn't have seen that on Facebook.  Shame we are in limbo but - there is hope for 13 :-)

jsb said:

Stan had over four days on Iberian peninsula to feed. From arrival 1800hrs GMT, 12th until he left, before being recorded  pm south of Gran Canaria on the 18th. I was making sure that it was unlikely that he was 'running on empty', when he arrived on the CV islands, which if he had been, then he could have been too weak to fish. However, since he was able to island hop, we should be able to assume, that he arrived in petty good condition, despite the long sea crossing. So assuming that sea fishing off the islands' coastlines did not present a problem for him, we can then say, that there is no reason to assume that he was weak or hungry i.e. in good condition.

Thanks jsb, your thoughts give a glimmer of hope for Stan, he arrived on Cape Verde Islands 19/20th September, and island hopped until 26th Sept, surely if he headed out to sea there would have been some data come in to indicate this, lets hope it is only a transmitter problem and until we know for sure I will believe that he is still OK.