Fabulous photo of Beatrice yesterday.
Thank you KEITH and ALAN for the info and maps. Am unhappy to hear about the Osprey you saw Keith but (hopefully) assume it later went properly on its way. What can a bird do for crying out - is it really, just ''luck of the draw'' in regard to safe passage with these sand storms?
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Thankyou for the wonderful photo of Beatrice showing the tracker and I, too, am grateful to Rutland for keeping us up to date. :-)
If at first you don't succeed; have a large glass of wine and remember there is no success like failure and failure is no success at all.
The Rutland account of 09 following the ridge as a navigation aid is fascinating, and brings to mind a thought which occurred when I was on a cruise on the Nile in early October 2010. I saw three ospreys between Luxor and Aswan, including one (pictured in my avatar) catching a fish with what seemed great ease. Migrating ospreys from the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe don't have to battle across the Sahara like our birds - they can take a trip along a flowing snack bar which is several thousand miles long. I wonder if this has a positive effect on the return rate from migration - or do the Nile crocodiles which are said to predate on ospreys keep the balance. I'd love to know, but probably never will.
Report from Roy Dennis as at yesterday 21st March.
Beatrice still at her stopover on the Adour
No further signals from Morven's dodgy transmitter, but this is not unusual. She was a couple of days ahead of Rutland's 09, so I would guess she is in Spain and may next show up in reports from her stopover on the north coast.
Red 8T in the Mauritanian desert.
Rothiemurchus has not yet left his wintering site. Although he is now an adult, he doesn't seem to be in a great hurry to get home and breed!
I notice that "A Life of Ospreys" is still available on Roy's site. An excellent book.
ChloeB and Tiger's data site ? Link to the Important Loch Garten Links
Latest position for Rutland 09 on the night of 20th/21st March, 125 miles from the Straits of Gibraltar.
Thanks SueC.
Dulas latest position : No change:
Einion latest position : No change:
Jukka : No change. Should be leaving soon:
Latest from Rutland Water on 09 - 09's Epic journey through Spain
He has flown 600 miles in 21 hours, including the crossing to Europe and an overnight flight. N.B. this is not on Google Earth yet.
Sue C Latest from Rutland Water on 09 - 09's Epic journey through Spain He has flown 600 miles in 21 hours, including the crossing to Europe and an overnight flight. N.B. this is not on Google Earth yet.
Fantastic news.
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Jukka has left on migration 6 days earlier than last year:
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20.3.
Jukka the Osprey spring migration began today, six days earlier than last spring, and three days earlier than in the spring of 2010. The morning readings at 6 am and 9 am local time were still Jukka's core wintering Benue River delta, northern Cameroon, located in Lagdo, an artificial lake southeast corner. At noon, Jukka was Lagdon the north side of-the-fly 600 meters above the north-northwest, and three hours later, he crossed the Nigerian border. Jukka stopped to spend the night in a small grove of trees near the 222 km Bashigabin day after the trip.
21.3.
All in all, Jukka flew the second turn during his travel 260 km to the northwest in a straight line. Jukka's at that moment as the satellite measured the air speed of 65 km / h at 12 and 63 km / h at 15 o'clock (local time). In fact, Jukka proceeded at 12 and 15 during the period from 113 km on average "only" 37 km / h