So March has arrived and this is the month when the ospreys will arrive back at their nests. There is a huge amount of anticipation for the season ahead.
For Loch Garten there are so many questions. Will EJ be first back as is usually the case? Will we see Blue XD at Loch Garten this year?
More recently we have had the Caledonia effect. The VAP team went out to Seville and managed to find Caledonia's wintering quarters. In the process they forged links with two local osprey loversin the form of Murat and Roberto. This was an extemely welcome development.
It will be interesting to see if Lady makes it back for yet another season.
Although it turned out very sad for Dyfi in 2012 the Ceulan effect will not be forgetten any time soon.
5N (04) will presumably get back to Rutland to find that she is a widow once again. What she will not know is that two of her offspring made it back last year which is quite an achievement.
Rutland are also publishing a new osprey book on 14th March 2013
Excitement is at fever pitch.
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Hi and welcome nbt
I've read your thread about the sighting on "singletrackworld" and spotted a post from "bunnyhop" saying "I was with nbt when we saw the bird circling it's prey".
This could be the key - what was the prey? As ospreys eat exclusively fish, they would only hang around a town, if there was somewhere they hoped to catch fish. Does this accord with what you saw?
Welcome nbt. Having read all the reports on this bird , I am inclined to believe that this was not an osprey but probably another raptor, maybe a light coloured buzzard.
Alan P I have to agree and a fantastic job you do but curious if not on the bird guides is spottting of Ospreys not to be believed. I am so pleased spotting in the UK and fully understand it could be wrong :) I will not dismiss nbt and would love to agree and wish you had got a pic :) yes sceptical and excited also :)
b&b : I find that Birdguides is the most reliable central information gatherer of sightings. Not saying they are 100% but as I subscribe to their site it is the one I choose to go by.
I am beginning to think that the ospreys will be late this year. The weather forecasts are not too encouraging.
Tiger : I have been thinking exactly the same thing. The next 2 weeks will be significant.
We got a hit from Kingston St Vincent on our data website today. I wonder who that might have been?
I wonder? :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Hazel b said: We got a hit from Kingston St Vincent on our data website today. I wonder who that might have been?
It is Mary GK I think, on her cruise holiday.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Do we know someone in Canterbury, New Zealand? There's also a red dot on the map there.