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On the Loire.... the storm-damaged nest at Etang du Ravoir has now been repaired - and checked out by a visiting black-ringed female osprey Photo page

Further to my post on the summary thread, faune-charente-maritime have said in their email back to me to take a look at this map which shows the sightings marked in their departement, for the period 1st July to 30th Novenber 2012. This means the situation to date is shown and they will be adding to the...

I spent today in the Orleans Forest and at L'Etang du Ravoir . The three youngsters are now ringed and I woud say that they are heavier than average. It was easy to see them exercising, ready to fledge, although I could only see two doing this. I also saw the adults flying in to the nest with a fish...

The Post Office in France are bringing out a set of stamps featuring birds to mark the centenial of the LPO 1912 to 2012. It includes the osprey on one denomination. French English a la 'Bing Translator' The Bing works on my laptop, If you have problems, right click the selected French...

hello , I do not see Odin bring fish to EJ and when he comes , he landed on it , how to explain this behavior ? thank you for your response . I'am french, sorry for my english medium. Véronique

Goings on at l'Etang du Ravoir on Saturday 17th. Saturday March 17: `' 8Z'' is back! It was a fortuitous time for him to return because of the evidence that we see, another suitor was not going to be long in taking his place together with `' 02''… Towards 14H50 indeed...

Sue , it is great the way they identified orange 'the male', on his migration. 'Saturday March 17: `' 8Z'' is back!' report is rather garbled in english, I may have time later to unpick it to make sense.

As of 16th, it is reported that the Forest of Orleans is now at 20 ospreys present. The reports are difficult to translate due to the style in which they are written. I had a go at the previous one which in the end, turned out too garbled and would only have confused you. The 16th goes like this with...

jsb l'Etang du Ravoir , still the same 8th March. 8R, 8V and an unringed male are there. The same day last year Tuesday 8th the report says 'at least seven osprey in the Forest of Orleans). On Sunday, 11th March, the above three are now joined by female orange 02.

l'Etang du Ravoir , still the same 8th March. 8R, 8V and an unringed male are there. The same day last year Tuesday 8th the report says 'at least seven osprey in the Forest of Orleans).

Tiger : Here is a PDF document, from the source of Forest of Orleans information, the ONF (the equivalent of our Forestery Commmision). Is says 58% of the Balbuzards in the 'Central' region of France in 2009, were there. That means 58% of 29 breeding pairs and 47 fledged young, that were counted...

Tiger : I see SueC has provided some answers, I was looking at that PDF doc from LPO recently, to get some info on F of Orleans birds, as I plan to go there in the next few weeks. Since we are steering off the topic of this thread I shall continue with Orleans on the 'Other Nests' thread. I see...

Tiger and jsb Re your queries about the Etang du Ravoir in the Foret d'Orleans: the pair who have occupied the observatory nest in recent years, 8Z and 02, are NOT back yet. A pair at a nearby nest, 8R and 8V , who are usually early, arrived back last week there has also been an unringed...

ALAN PETRIE Gironde: Thursday, March 1st, 2012 Réserve Naturelle de l'Etang de Cousseau / Lacanau (33) 1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) [Pascal Grisser ] Here is a webpage for the above reserve, it is really superb and one 'balbu' summer stayer is noted. You need to...

Latest news from L'Etang du Ravoir, in the Forest of Orleans, Gilles Perrodin reports the mating between Orange 8R male and Orange 8V female, the 8V is subject to final confirmation. This occurred on the 4th March. The male who turned out to be 8R was reported on the sightings thread as first having...

News comes today of what may become two new nests this year in the shape of two new platforms that were erected in France in February. They are in the Medoc region, to the north of Bordeaux, just a few kilometres to the west of the sturgeon caviar farm, where Rothes hangs out. They are sited on the spring...

Alan : I could not resist posting the 'Google translation' of the above! "obviously an adult chub fishing and is scolded by a crow, a Kite adults eventually arrived in nowhere and it's a chase air, the cries balbu everything and may eventually after several minutes away" But...

A sighting in France, 2nd March, with photograph. Un site en forêt d'Orlénas, l'étang du Ravoir. (This site permits the observation of birds). Etang du Ravoir Description of above in French

An Osprey rescue in France. Link is posted in French, as the Google translation is not good English. Story is a starving osprey found a fish farm, but got caught up in the trout nets and damaged its wings, was rescued and cared for at some expense to the rescuers, who rehabilitated it, prior to a planned...

Bringing this thread up, as it's relevant to the "why migrate?" issue which has come up in the Update. A wealth of new material about the osprey scene in France has just been posted: Firstly on the news page of the LPO Osprey mini-site: http://balbuzard.lpo.fr/actualites/actualites.html...

The Loire Forests – Osprey Heartland in Mainland France Ospreys used to be persecuted just as much in France as in Britain. By the first half of the 20 th century they were a rare sight, and were not believed to nest at all on the French mainland after the Second World War. This changed in the...