Mallachie moves on , Rothes seems settled (Part 2)

Brilliant, plenty fishing opportunities for her then, hopefully.

Thanks Richard

Thanks Richard for the update, Rothes is obviously very happy where she is and Mallachie is making steady progress south, hope she has stayed clear of the bad weather today.......

Think the weather to change down south tomorrow, wonder if it will hinder her  in anyway. she's getting on quite the thing though.

Good girl Mallachie.  and thank you Richard and by the way when you go on your travels Bon Voyage  and hope we see you again next year.  x

Both sisters must be fishing well! GRAZIE, Richard :-)

Thanks Richard for the reassuring update. It's good to know Mallachie is moving on and in the right sort of direction. I'll look out for her as she gets closer to the south coast.

Thanks Richard... great to get news of the girls! Mallachie seems to be following a well-stocked fishing route on her travels south. Rothes is obviously very happy where she is for now.

Thanks for your updates, Richard. Good to know all is going well for both of them.

Even now, we get surprises!  White TF is male, after all. I suppose the fact that he/she enjoyed rearranging the furniture made us assume a female.....

That's the spirit Tish, one thing tho, do you fancy changing that Avatar lol  not than I can talk with an ellie lol

Thanks very much for the update Richard. It is very reassuring to know that both Rothes and Mallachie are doing well. Interesting that Mallachie is taking her time travelling down the country. She is probably honing her fishing skills.

Maureen : It is the McGregor clan badge.

Reposting this as noticed new blog Tuesday evening, thankyou Richard, as always.

Teresa...... bet those drinkers thought they'd had one (or several) too many glasses of wine! Great article.

Alan Petrie .... have I missed something?

WHO is Beatrice? pleased I know where she is tho!

Thanks Richard for the update.  Good to know Rothes is enjoying herself in France and Mallachie has found good fishing grounds to.  

Very good news. Many thanks Richard and I hope your visits abroad refresh and delight you.

Hopefullly we can expect the satellite data to be input into GE as usual a little later.

Barbara in Switzerland : Beatrice is one of Roy Dennis tagged birds see this link

www.roydennis.org/.../index.asp

Thanks for reply about the cameras RICHARD, maybe instead you can take a few pics and post them with your comment now and again instead.

Katie asked us to write about our osprey experiences. Well the last time I was fortunate enough to see 3 ospreys was yesterday in Dorset, couldn't beleive my luck.

My husband and I, (even though it was very clouldy) decided to visit the RSPB reserve at Arne peninusular which sticks out into Poole harbour in Dorset, very beautiful area. We went last year but my husband endedeu p helping an elderly couple in the middle of no-where on one of the walks as he is st.John's ambulance trained and the man was having a heart attack or stroke. He helped the RSPB man put the elderly man in his 4 by 4 to take him back to the car park and an ambulance which couldn't get to the remote location. Hense our walk was abandoned. This time, my husband joked about taking the first aid kit but I said no. We spoke to an RSPB volunteer in their new small building which had been donated to them (£46,000) by a man who had lost his wife and wanted to see the building whilst he was still here. She said that there are still 3 or 4 osprey here having a rest on the migration south so we decided to go on the walk in the direction of upstream even though the tide was going out, I was hopeful that I would see one but you never know. The scenary is very similar to the Abernethy forest with pine trees then expanses of heathland. As we came out of the trees and were half way across open land on the way to the hide which looked over the inlet, I suddenly saw 2 birds of prey and my husband saw a 3rd above us. I put my binoculars on and looked up following one which was circling with a second and although we knew it was a large bird of prey and the shape matched an osprey, they were flying high against a very cloudy, dark grey sky so that their white underneath was not visable. The birds dissapeared behind a large group of trees upstream. I could not beleive it, I'd recently travelled 600 miles to see them at Loch Lowes and Loch Garten and yet here about 12 miles from Bournemouth were 3. After we had visited the hide we walked on to a vantage point and sat on the seat eating our picnic looking upsteam and in the direction where the ospreys had flown.

With a sandwich in my mouth (not fish sandwiches) and nearly dropping it I shouted at my husband, osprey, quick binoculars and sure enough two flying together just above the trees. Too far away to see the white again. Others had stopped and were watching with a various assortment of scopes, much posher than mine. Then we saw them flying twice more as the clouds cleared quickly and it became very hot so we made our way back to the centre where I had a quick change back into summer clothes. What an experience. We will try the other walks over the autumn and winter but they will not be able to match my excitment of seeing ospreys locally. Unfortunatly on the way back on a small stretch of duel-carridgeway I sadly saw 2 dead young foxes and a badger.

JILLIAN