The Ospreys are back !!
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Sadly, OP, my favoured site at Loch Garten has had/ is having another catastrophic nesting year.
Female EJ has laid three eggs eventually but her new male, aka George, seems to be a right Snowflake of a bird. EJ brooding and calling but few fish being brought, so eventually nature took over & EJ went off to catch her own fish leaving the eggs to cool. More or less continual behaviour this year so no likelihood now of osprey chicks at Loch Garten.
EJ is 21 years old now so, sadly, this might be her last season retaining a nest. Very few reach the great age of Lady at Loch Of The Lowes, some 28 years I believe.
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Just checked the links on this thread to the nest cameras and found the 2 surviving youngsters at Rutland are well grown and ringed now. The Welsh and Cumbria nests each appear to have 3 healthy looking youngsters also. Nothing at Loch Garten unfortunately.
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The female osprey at Glaslyn near Porthmadog returned safely again (for the 16th successive year) on the 25th March, and her much younger 'husband' of the last couple of years, Aran, returned on the 1st April. Let's hope for another successful year of raising young for them both.
She has hatched forty chicks, and 36 chicks of them have fledged. She is a grandmother to 74 chicks in various other nest sites all around the country.0 -
Went to the Dyfi Osprey project today where we watched the male brought a fish for the female who sat on one of the roost perches and got stuck into it. The male then returned to the river where he collected a very large branch for the nest.
We returned to our CL via the Clewydog reservoir and watched 2 more Osprey, one flying in from the Estuary and the others at on the nest. Great day with a total of 4 seen. Now looking forward to seeing more at Rutland Water this coming weekend.
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Looks as if we won't be so lucky up at Boat of Garten, as the nest is devoid of life. We'll find out more tomorrow hopefully.
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The pair at Foulshaw Moss are doing fine, sitting eggs I think. The pair at Bassenthwite do have at least one egg. There has also been at least 3 others seen in the Bass nest area.
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The wardens at the Garten were saying that they don't expect that there'll be any pairs laying there this year, but are hoping that a couple of young ones will pair up this month and will return to the site next year.
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Well they were back with a vengeance today! Drove down to Kincraig and up to the church that overlooks Loch Insh. Just as we got out of our car an Osprey flew overhead, and then we spotted 3 others higher up above our heads. The reason we'd come was to view the Osprey's nest on Tom Dubh island, and there we saw our 5th one, sitting on the nest. Perhaps a couple of those that were flying high will pair up and choose to settle over at Loch Garten....fingers crossed.
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Thanks. I know about that one as have been before. Will be paying a visit next week sometime to check on progress.
As an aside it's good to see a lot more projects advertising Osprey areas. A big thanks must go to all of the volunteers who keep an eye on the birds and nests.
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Now this is a real sea eagle. What a stella bird at that! The osprey is a softy compared with this as is our very own White-tailed Sea Eagle!
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They expect the other 2 to arrive shortly.
