The female ospreys have not been seen this week at all, this includes the mother osprey and two female chicks (tag numbers 90 and 91). It’s possible that they have started their migration, the only ospreys left now are the father and middle male chick (tag YF).
After stopping feeding the male chick for a few days, the father is now feeding him again with fish on a regular basis. We were hoping that he would have stopped feeding the chick by now to encourage independence and the potential start of his migration as the others have done – but this is not the case yet.
At 2pm yesterday (Wednesday 26 August) another adult female osprey was seen flying around the nest. She eventually landed on the nest and tried for up to 40 mins to take a fish off the young male, but eventually he chased her off.
We originally thought this female osprey was the mother osprey, however on closer inspection we realised she had lighter markings on her chest and the young male chick did not recognise her.
In June and July, I visited several local schools to raise awareness of the project and we set up a competition where we asked the children to send in potential names for the three chicks. This competition will close on Monday 31 August and we’ll be choosing the names at random the same day – we’ll post the results on the blog immediately.
The Glaslyn Osprey site reached a milestone last weekend and recorded its 30,000th visit. The coffee morning on Saturday 22 August was very well attended and was a great success, we were also lucky enough to have great weather the whole day. Thank you to everyone for their support and help on the day.