The Ospreys are back !!
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Many of us fishing the lakes and reservoirs in Lincolnshire would put our rods down in awe and watch these splendid birds fish whilst stopping off on their sojourns. Wonderful to see and they were far better at it than we! Just disappointing that we have no rewilding projects which includes them in our county. After all, it the second largest county and lots of waters available both inland and coastal.
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ABM- A bit insulting but not taken down I see.
Fisherman, I cannot find a post from ABM during the last few days that refers to any post that you may have made, so I presume that you are talking about Brian's post in response to one of mine. If so I can find nothing insulting about it and I am well capable of defending my self if I considered it so. As far as I am concerned the response was just a bit of banter between correspondents.😟
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Maya is back!!😁
I missed the report yesterday, but Maya was seen, on camera, returning to her nest at Manton Bay, Rutland Water, yesterday, 15th, at 10:22 am. That is 4 days earlier than expected. 😄
An even earlier arrival, on the 13th around noon, was LM12, (Laddie), at Loch of the Lowes, 8 days before expected date.
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The latest post from the Rutland Osprey Project.
"Well, what an incredible week we have had! The first of the Rutland Ospreys returned on Saturday 12th March, although their identity didn’t become known until a few days later, when we learned it was one of the breeding males from another of our nest sites, which is located on private land, 8F(12). 8F is a 12 year old male which fledged from the Manton Bay nest in 2012 and his parents are Maya and male 5R(04). This is one of the earliest records that we have of one of the Rutland birds returning.
It is of course fantastic that we had our first Osprey back at the weekend, but we were all waiting in keen anticipation for the return of our star pair, Maya and male 33(11), from the Manton Bay nest. We didn’t have to wait long, because on Tuesday (15th) morning at 10:21, an unringed Osprey landed on the nest. Maya had returned, which was so exciting for us all! This year will mark Maya’s 13th season here in Rutland and although we cannot be certain how old she is, we think she is 15. Now the wait is on for the return of her mate 33(11), which I’m sure won’t be too far behind. "
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Latest update from Manton Bay......Blue33, Maya's mate, arrived today at 17:29, just a couple of days later than predicted.
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Brian, something for you to download 're The Clywedog Osprey camers.
Latest update on arrivals on nests listed previously
3 pairs, Manton Bay, Loch of the Lowes, and Threaves Castle, plus the female at Esthwaite Water.
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Oh, thank you very much, Nellie, you scamp ! Have you not worked out yet that I am spending sooo very much time on here that I've forgotten what a real, live Osprey looks like ?
Seriously I repeat Thank you so very much, I'm hoping to start on my travels as soon as I get my 'Old Glory' magazine, with its list of rallies etc.
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I'm not sure how many in total are looking for "Homes in the Country" at present Red, for the last few years Loch Garton has been in need of Bird Family Support Staff since they have been very flighty critturs ( pun intended ) and the nest overlooked by the RSPB site has actually been a dismal failure ! So we will have to keep looking and hoping for some thing to drag me ## back on the road again ##
For the best information see the posts that NTH puts on here for me ( and others of course ) such as Page 33 etc etc of this thread. There will be Links to several different Osprey nesting sites on them
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RF, there is a new nest site, close to the old one which was on a dying tree, but no shows yet.
Here is a link to RSPB web site for LG.
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Brian, hope you are soon able to get out on the road. A trip taking in Foulshaw Moss, Esthwaite Water, Bassenthwaite, Threaves Castle and Loch of the Lowes should ensure that you see one for two at least. The pairs at EW, TC and LotL have arrived already.
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The first egg of the year, on the nests that are monitored and filmed, has been laid, late last night, by Maya at Manton Bay, Rutland.
Many of the pairs have yet to arrive, with only one, or possibly 2, of the 7 nests at Keilder occupied.
Hope to visit Threives Castle next week to try and get a view of the pair there.
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Redface, there was a female Osprey that landed on the next on 29th, possible the same one as last year, Mistle, but nothing more apart from a few flypasts.
BTW, joining two threads, there is a camera on a White Tailed Eagle's nest, with occupants, being monitored at the LG visitors centre.
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General rubbish or recycling?
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RedKite, I wonder if it was Male Osprey 4K(13) who is making excellent progress so far on his migration and has travelled across the majority of Spain by 2 days ago, having left his wintering grounds in Guinea on 21st of March, and is heading back to Rutland Water?😁
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With the return this evening of the female partner of W6 to nest No.6 at Keilder there are now recorded 13 pairs out of the 26 monitored nests on the UK Osprey web site. The female at Manton Bay, Rutland, has also just laid her 3rd egg of this year. Fingers crossed that the other birds return and that all the pair's have a successful breeding season.
We went to Threave Castle today and saw both of the pair there, with the female on the nest and the male on his favourite perch. This nest does not have a camera overlooking it so the site volunteer was not sure if any eggs had yet been laid, but it seemed unlikely, going by the birds' actions on the nest.
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Latest update on monitored nests.
19 out of the 27 nests now have their pairs in residence. So far 3 have eggs, with 3 laid at Manton Bay, and one each at Loch of the Lowes (today) and at Keilder 1A nest. Fingers crossed that there will soon be many others and that the hatchings will be successful.
There only 3 nests without any occupants, 2 of those are at Keilder and the third is Loch Garten, sorry Brian.😞
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I see that the female at Threaves Castle nesg has laid her first egg, as has she at Foulshaw.
Last year's pair at Loch Arkaig have returned to Nest 2 there, and there appears to a new pair taking up residence on Nest 1. Fingers crossed that they form a breeding pair.
Brian, some good news from Loch Garten, the male that paid a short visit there last year, AX6 (named Axel by the Osprey enthusiasts) has returned to the nest and appears to be settling in. Now waiting for a female to join him, possibly Mistle who was there last year. There may be an occupying couple at last at LG, as it has been a few years since the nest was utilised.
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We'll have to wait and see, Brian, but I will keep an eye on the RSPB Loch Garten links with the hope that a pair will take up residence.
Particularly for CY, there is a pair of Ospreys who look as if they are set to occupy Nest 2 at Poole Harbour, CY7 and 022. Here is a link to the live feed from the camera looking at the nest.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4bN1JOlapQ
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Ah, but like the Prisoner, I'm not just a number.
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Unlike a lot of nesting pairs on the other monitored sites these are a new couple so the regular watchers or the charity volunteers have not got round to naming them yet.
For that are not familiar with the numbering of Ospreys this link will help.
http://ukospreys.uk/darvic-rings.htm
If one wants further information, for example, which year a bird was born, where and it's ring number, then it can be found here.
http://ukospreys.uk/mindex.htm
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I like that they have been give names, much easier to associate to a particular location than numbers, IMO. Numbers seem so impersonal, and of course not all the Ospreys have been tagged so have no number per se.
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