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

That is such a shame. I wonder what sends them off in totally the wrong direction. Mind you how those who make the thousands of miles successfully are pretty amazing....

Genetics and weather are a bit of a lottery for migrating birds aren't they?

It may be human intervention in the end. A lot of the pesticides used end up in rivers & lakes. It is known that they affect bees, such that they loose their sense of direction & can't find their way back to the hive. I think it is quite possible that these pesticides build up in the fish & get taken in by the Ospreys.

I don't think it's genetics because birds that get lost & die don't breed!! It's survival of the fittest all the way isn't it !

However we have a ring billed gull that flys the Atlantique every year to over winter in the port of Meschers. How do they do it?

I meant juvenile ospreys when I spoke of genetics. In Chip's case it was a bad weather front that sent him out to sea, not bad genes.

ChloeB said:

I meant juvenile ospreys when I spoke of a genetics. In Chip's case it was a bad weather front that sent him out to sea, not bad genes.

Sorry ChloeB, I didn't mean to be flippant, if it was bad weather that's rotton luck & not much to be done about it.

I didn''t take it as flippant Noisette. You were putting forward a theory and giving your opinion. Nothing wrong with that :)

Ilmar deep into Angola and still heading south:

57375 was heading for Gibraltar but has doubled back to a reservoir presumably to fish at 09:25:53 yesterday morning:

Unknown said:

57375 was heading for Gibraltar but has doubled back to a reservoir presumably to fish at 09:25:53 yesterday morning:

Perhaps he found the going a bit hard, there has been a strong southerly wind & rain coming from Spain & up through Fance for the last day or so. 

Ilmar is now in the coastal area next to th Parque Nacional de Quicama in Angola: