These photos are truly amazing - thank you so much, Xalbai, for making so many osprey-followers so happy!
En francais:
Ces photos sont vraiment étonnantes – vous remercient tellement, Xalbai, de rendre tant d'osprey-spectateurs si heureux!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Fabulous shots; just fabulous! Thanks so much Xalbai.
Fully comply, photos are amazing, well done Xalbai over in France, keep them coming in. Has anyone seen the uptodate blog from Richard re Mallachie's latest position. Also they have retained their award that they received last year, especially heartening in this their Golden year. Well done LG team!!!!!!!! Over 40,000 visitors came and went apparently!!
Xalbai, all your photographs are very beautiful. My favourite is the one showing Mallachiie's underside, it looks as if she is a tame hawk and she is just about to land on your arm and can only be a metre above your head. But, this is not true of course, she is much higher and your lens has picked up the detail of her plumage in detail. I hope you get a chance to take more pictures of other ospreys, now that you can tell where they are, or likely to be with the aid of the satellite tagging.
Thank you for sharing your photographs of Mallachie. They are really beautiful and it is so wonderful to be able to see her.
I wonder if you have taken a look at Roy Dennis website. He actually has a page in it that asks for specific information regarding colour ringed birds. In case you missed it here is a link to that page. Roy coordinates all osprey ringing in the UK so should be able to give you all the details on the osprey your friend saw last September.
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=88
WOW Xalbai - what lovely photos and such a treat for us to see how she is getting on. Thank you so much for sharing them with us all.
Thanks once again for those wonderful photographs of Mallachie. We never expected to see such amazing photos of her until she returned to Scotland. Merci Beaucoup!!!
Copied from 'There's no stopping.......'
Rothes - some detective work needed here - possible sighting?
www.faune-aquitaine.org/index.php
Yesterday we have a sighting as above, near Hourtin, in a natural reserve, called Barouins. This is just outside the scope of Rothes' tracking recorded on Google, but only 20 Km, as I am not sure exactly where Baroiuns is located, I know the area but not that place. A map of where I think it may be, you can drag the map and see if you can find it. We do not have all Rothes points plotted because of the congestion and also I do not think that yesterday's data is in yet.
Richard can you spot any fixes near to Lac d'Hourtin-Carcans or Lac de Lacanau? There is a reserve between the two lakes. That may be the place.
A description of Barouins follows:-
La boucle locale emprunte des petites voies et chemins à travers la forêt de pins et serpente en bordure de crastes (fossés) bordées de bosquets de chênes. La boucle peut-être prolongée jusqu'à l'espace naturel des Barouins.
Basically, says, paths, pine forest, (used to build Napoleon's fleet!), snakes, ditches, chestnut borders.
Boucle means - a loop or a meander.
www.tourisme-gironde.fr/randonnee_pdr9.asp
www.viamichelin.fr/.../Cartes
Re map, click on 'rechercher' when it downloads. It looks blank otherwise.
Also I posted.......
More sightings yesterday, Pointe de l'Eyre, 3 sighted and Banc d'Arquin, 1 sighted. Both these places are Departement 33, La Gironde.
hi jsb a menber of "faune aquitaine have see yesterday an osprey in barouins(lac d'hourtin)
Hi Xalbai, barouins - ou est ca? Est ce que la reserve de l'etang de cousseau? Nous attendons la prochaine carte de migration de Rothes. J'ai demande de Richard, si les co-ordinates GPS de Rothes sont fixe pres de lac d'hourtain.
Peut-etre, etaing de cousseau?
Xalbai
This is just to let you know, I've put copies of all your photos of Mallachie on a special thread (i don't know what the French word is for that!) in the part of the Forum dedicated to the Loch Garten Ospreys, so that they don't get lost.
Here's the link to it:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/groups/lochgartenospreys/forum/p/4783/35433.aspx#35433
I hope this is OK, Sue
here are the last photos of mallachie
I'm very happy to have the opportunity to meet the rspb community and to please them with my photos.I've dreamed to take photos like that for more 1 year.That's why in August,with a friend of mine,I set up a dead tree near the NIVELLE river as a perch for osprey during the migration.When I saw mallachie I hide myself near the perch....10 minutes later, she came to perch,10 meters of my position...When I saw the antenna and the ring,I was sure she was an osprey "VIP".The menbers of "faune aquitaine" a french website,helped me to find you in order to let you know how she is getting on. This is a beautiful story.It was for me a moment of emotion.very many thanks..
barouin, rive east of the lac d'hourtin...you can see on a map with 'faune aquitaine' the place where a birdwatcher saw an osprey...
A heartfelt "thank you" Xalbai. I, for one, feel very lucky that you cared enough to find the RSPB site and keep us updated about Mallachie and I sincerely hope that you will continue to share your experiences and photos with us - perhaps of your local wildlife.
Squirrel x
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!