The Ospreys are back !!
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Report of a sighting of another potential returnee, with an Osprey seen yesterday at 2:30 on the nest at Threaves!
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Any news on the Brenig Ospreys? Some will recall that appalling act of vandalism enacted by idiots a couple of years ago. Let’s hope for better things this year here and across the UK and an improved enlightenment and tolerance towards raptors in our general public.
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No Ospreys yet at Brenig, micky, but quite a few other visitors!! Here's a link if you want to follow the nest news.
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Ops, sorry micky, here it is
More good news today.
7A back at Esthwaite nest on 19th and mate back too, but don't have date.
Both unringed male and female back at Bassenthwaite nest on 23rd.
White YW is back at his nest at Foulshaw Moses arriving at19:00 today.
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And more are arriving at their nest sites.
At Poole Harbour, Blue 022 (male) arrived at 05:52 today
At Dyfi, Telyn - Blue 3J (female) at 19:29 today.
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She arrived at the nest at 05:54 this morning.
There are also two more arrivals to report
Elen arrived at Glaslyn at 12:10 today
Telyn arrived at Dyfi at 19.29 yesterday.
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Brilliant news, yes they have returned, only southern England breeding ospreys.👍
It appears that translocation projects do work despite the objections by some!
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Thanks for the link, micky.
Today's arrival is at the Loch of the Lowes, where the male, Laddie, came in at 16:38 to join his mate, so another pair in place.
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This has been the busiest day so far for arrivals at the nests with cameras!
At Clywedog both Ospreys arrived, Seren, 5C, at 10:06 and Dylan at 16:11
At Loch Arkaig Louis arrived at Nest 2 at 15:18
At Foulshaw the female Blue 35 arrived at 14:15
At Alyth Flora, HK10, arrived about 17:19
There is also news from Threaves that of the second of the pair, KC, arrived on the 26th, and from the Rutland Project came the news that the male Blue T7 arrived yesterday.
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More arrivals today:-
At Alyth the unringed male, Harry, arrived at 14:41 so the pair are there.
At Pont Croesor, the second nest at Glaslyn, the female (014) of the pair arrived.
In Keilder there have been a succession of arrivals, the male W6 visited nest 1A before heading to nest 6; nest 1A was then taken over by the female KF13, while the pair KM 18, the male, arrived before his mate KX7.
With the forecast for good weather this weekend hopefully more will be arriving.
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Not had much time to go thro' the emails today, but there are certainly more arriving each day. Will try to do a summary tomorrow.
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Lots of action over the weekend, starting with the arrival for the first egg of the year, to the pair at Manton Bay, at 15:58 yesterday.
At Keilder, the male UV arrived at Nest 5A at 06:40 on the 30th, at Nest 4 both 69 (m) and Mrs 69 had arrived by the 26th.
At Clwydog, his home water, Blue 496 (2021) visited Nest 2.
At Glaslyn main nest, Aran arrived 16:58 on the 30th, and the nest was intended by 372 (2012), a Scottish bird who was transposed to from Poole. At check that nest, at Pont Croesor both Z2 and his partner arrived on 29th.
At Loch Archaig the female Dorcha arrived at 14:35 on the 30th.
At Dyfi the female Telyn, 3J, arrived at 19:29 on the 25th, and her mate Idris arrived at 09:44 on the 30th. The nest was also intruded by a male N0(2017) born at Foulshaw.
At Llyn Brenig the resident male LJ2 arrived at 07:02 today.
The male Osprey 06 was seen feeding at the R Gwash Trout Farm (Rutland) on the 25th.
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There are two eggs now on the next at Manton, but none recorded at any of the other nest. There has been quite a lot of coming and going at the Kielder nests but so far only two pairs are in residence.
In total so far at the named sites there are 7 pairs in England, out of 19, 6 in Scotland out of 12, and 5 in Wales out of 10, but there are also a number of other Ospreys who are intruding at some of these nest sites. However not all of the 41 name/numbered sites were occupied by pairs last year.
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A third egg was laid yesterday at the Manton Bay nest, but no report of any others yet. There are still quite a number of nests without the pairs from last year although there are a fair number of single Ospreys around.
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Good news in that Brodie and his mate Asha are back at Loch Garten, and at Balgarvie Loch the male KR3 has returned to join his mate, an an unringed female know as Mrs BF.
At Llyn Brenig, the resident female LR6 has not arrived but her mate LJ2 is sharing their best with another female 372, a 2021 chick from Scotland translocated to Poole.
Not such good news at Manton Bay, as the female osprey, Maya, does not appear to be full fit, having some trouble breathing.
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A quick update on the egg situation.
At Dyfi the first egg was laid at 08:01 on the 12th.
At Keilder, Nest 6 has the first egg paid sometime on the 12th/13th.
At Manton Bay the 3rd egg was laid at 11:05 on the 5th.
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Two more of the monitored nests have eggs.
At Esthwaite laid some time before 14th, and at Loch Arkaig the first egg was laid today at 11:13.
Waiting patiently for there to be eggs laid at Loch of the Lowes very shortly, and from Keilder's numerous nests.
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Another "eggselent" day with 4 new eggs laid today and news of one from earlier in the week.
At Clywedog the first egg arrived around 18:30 on the 13th.
Today's arrivals were a 2nd egg at Dyfi at 08:01, a first at Nest 7 at Kielder around 01:00, a 1st at Foulshaw at 01:06, and the first at Poole at 15:53
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More nests with eggs, as at Alyth the first egg was laid around 11:00 yesterday, a second one at Esthwaite also yesterday, and a 1st one at Nest 4 in Keilder some time between 15:50 on the 15th and 09:00 today.
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Fantastic news there Nellie, what a long way we have come since those bleak days we can remember when these birds were persecuted by the uneducated, the ill informed and ill tolerant. I’d love to see these birds return to estuaries all around England. Unfortunately the state of our inland waterways and coastal reaches are so dire now that the chances are slim to say the least.
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I agree micky, there are very few places in England where they can nest and breed with impunity. There was a report earlier this week which stated, I think, that there are about 200 breeding pairs in Scotland!!
However saying that there is good news from Cumbria, as the pair at Roudsea Woods have returned and appear to be sitting on egg(s).
More news from Scotland is that the nest at Loch of the Lowes now has it's first egg of the year which was laid at 10:48 today, 21 days after the pair arrived, the same as last year, and a 2nd egg was laid at the Loch Arkaig next at 05:55 this morning.
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I think it’s more a case of ‘they could nest with impunity’ given a fighting chance from ‘us’. We have pushed too many species to towards extinction and some to extinction in the UK through ‘our’ own selfish actions. The Osprey projects are a fantastic example of what can be done. Red Kites, Beavers, White Tailed Eagles, Storks and Cranes too. Many more species and their habitats, both flora and fauna could be included in our efforts. What I find mystifying is that a couple of decades ago there was real hope for our rivers. Now we hear almost daily about the appalling state of the vast number of our rivers, these being pretty much all polluted to death with excrement and deliberate or thoughtless chemical waste.
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Latest update from around the nests.
Aylth, 2nd egg at 09:03 on 18th, 3rd on 21st.
Dyfi, 3rd egg at 06:05 on 18th.
Foulshaw, 3rd egg on 21st,
Glaslyn, 1st egg at 18:08 on 22nd,
Kielder, Nest No.4, 2nd egg on 19th, 3rd at 15:30 on 21st; Nest No.5, 1st at 19:47 on 22nd; Next No.7, 3rd on 20/21st.
Loch Arkaig, 3rd egg at 02:26 on 20th.
Loch Garten, 1st egg at 10:47 on 21st, 2nd at 14:06 on 24th.
Loch of the Lowes, 2nd egg at 10:53 on 21st, 3rd at 20:47 on 23rd.
Poole Harbour, 2nd egg at 12:21 on 18th, 3rd at 14:22 on 21st, 4th st 19:15 on 24th.
There is also a second nest with a pair of Ospreys which has been spotted at Threaves!
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Another update
Glaslyn, 2nd egg at 12:44 on 25th, 3rd egg at 08:07 on 28th
Kielder Nest 5A, 2nd egg at about 20:39 on 26th, 3rd egg at 13:57 on 28th
Loch Garten, 3rd egg at 13:05 on 27th
Tweed Valley Nest 2, 3 eggs laid as of 28th.
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