DAILY UPDATE (Loch Garten nest) Monday 20 August 2012

Morning everybody, it seems so strange to be coming on and seeing nothing to report, I will have to start my knitting again to pass the time, or god forbid catch up on my house work.

You can't help but worry though in these early days

Morning Ellieloo. yes I agree.....worry :o(

Morning all. So is this it the 152 nd and possibly last daily meet up.

I suppose the most eagerly awaited thing now is the tracking data.

Morning Tiger. There was a GE update last evening, not showing a lot of movement over the last 3 days, so the next download should be on the 21st and we should hear soon after that.

moffer

Morning Tiger. There was a GE update last evening, not showing a lot of movement over the last 3 days, so the next download should be on the 21st and we should hear soon after that.

So the wait is on then!

Good Morning ALL. SO evident there has been no action this morning- you are only on page 3.

Trouble is we will still want to watch just in case we miss something.

Morning BRENDA  - I'm just waiting on 'the word'   from Staff

Good morning all......this is so surreal!  Wouldn't it be strange if the girls are shown to be travelling together when the tracking is updated?

Morning Brenda and Clare. I am still recording everything, and then going back over it with a fine tooth comb to make sure that we don't miss ANY possible sighting of our birds, but I feel that the girls at least, for sure have left.

Clare

Wouldn't it be strange if the girls are shown to be travelling together when the tracking is updated

My imagination has taken over CLARE  -. EJ is desperately flying ahead with the the two girls behind her screaming, " Mum, you forgot to bring our breakfast !!!! "

LOL, Brenda!  You forgot to mention Odin flying behind them with a fish!  (That was Limpy's suggestion)

Richard Thaxton at 9.17 am

I provided cover for the night-shift last night as we are short of volunteers this week - I've not done that since 1986 so all rather nostalic really - and I can report a quiet night and early morning with no ospreys at all until Odin arrived at 07.15am, sat atop the dead tree adjacent to the nest. He was looking intently all around him for any sign of any of his family, but no, not whilst I was there anyway. Could the youngsters have gone too?  It would be unusual for them to depart at the same time as the adult female, but we shall see.......

Clare

Good morning all......this is so surreal!  Wouldn't it be strange if the girls are shown to be travelling together when the tracking is updated?

I wish sigh.

Hello Ellieloo

So the first cover in 26 years!  wow.  1986 was Richard's first year with ospreys. See  this blog

I just knew that the Osprey Moffer spotted in her video was Odin. What a good dad he is.

Thanks TIGER for posting Richard's post. Of course the youngsters have gone Richard  :)  LG Ospreys re-write the text books all the time.

Thanks also for the link TIGER