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.
good to read your news Alan, thank you
Is it good or bad a move to Guinea?
BlueYD update: No change:
58.09 miles now between Ceulan and BlueYD:
Using an approximate position for Fearna it seems that BlueYD and Fearna are 15.96 miles apart:
Another triangle forming with Fearna, Ceulan and Blue YD, if only they could help one another stay safe.
Aigan and Ceulan are 28.2 miles apart:
Update on Ilmari from Finland: No change as at 18:00 on 09.12.2012:
Amazing that the 4 are so close together on the Senegal. Wish they could form a band to keep safe
Update from Rob Bierregaard:
"The last of our migrating birds (North Fork Bob) finally made it home to his winter hideout in Venezuela on November 28th, 59 days after he left Long Island. Like most males, he's never been in much of a hurry to get back to the wintering waters.
Despite the very benign hurricane season (at least for our Ospreys), during which we lost no birds crossing the Caribbean, we still lost 4 birds. Wrong-way Chip got blown off course and started hitchhiking on ships out in the Atlantic all of which were heading towards Europe! He survived a week, but unable to feed out in the open ocean, died at sea. Cutch died in a freak accident, impaled on a submerged snag as he dove for a fish in a pond down in Colombia. Jill and Thatch both disappeared for unknown reasons in Venezuela and Curacao, respectively.
Belle, our '10 juvenile from Martha's Vineyard is back on her wintering territory on the Rio Madeira at the southern fringe of the Amazonian rainforest. Sr. Bones (Nantucket) and North Fork Bob are both back on their wintering areas for the 3rd time-a record for our tagged birds. Art, our New Hampshire male tagged this spring, is on his wintering waters in southeastern Amazonia--a new area for our birds.
The two adults from the Westport River who were tagged with cell-tower transmitters are somewhere out of touch--not surprisingly. However one of them (Bridger) did amazingly enough "report in" from Bolivia. We'll hear from them again only in the spring.
From now until March, I'll update maps once a month or so and will only send out an update if something really interesting happens."