I've just had an e-mail from Roy Dennis to say that Logie the Osprey is on her way back down and that her migration started yesterday.
Kane
Vaughan Evans said
Sun Apr 20 7:06 PM, 2008
Wierdly I saw an Osprey at 16.00 this afternoon from Dunham traffic-lights heading NNE .....
-- Edited by Vaughan Evans at 19:08, 2008-04-20
Judith Smith said
Fri Apr 18 8:08 AM, 2008
Logie's missed us! The strong easterlies probably pushed her even further W and she flew up the Lancashire coast and roosted at Hawkshead in the Lakes last night.
Judith Smith said
Thu Apr 17 5:07 PM, 2008
She set off due N at 0820am today apparently, which should bring her over us. Rivington Resrs must be a draw, running N-S as they do.
Simon Warford said
Wed Apr 16 6:57 PM, 2008
always interesting reading about the tracking of these returning birds. seems Logie is still south of Birmingham tonight and not making alot of progress towards us.
Ian Campbell said
Wed Apr 16 2:26 PM, 2008
Just to agree with Vaughan in thanking Judith for the info about this site. I've just spent 20 mins reading about Logie's migration, really interesting and would advise everyone to take a look. Cheers Ian
Vaughan Evans said
Wed Apr 16 9:15 AM, 2008
Thanks for posting this Judith, really interesting!!
From my quick pasting of maps together, the route looks like it heads roughly up the M6 making the west side of Manchester the most likely place to see the bird. Given the usual routine of fishing first before resuming the trip north and a speed of about 30kmh then we should expect her between 11.00 and 12.30 ...
Paul Heaton said
Wed Apr 16 8:20 AM, 2008
The projected flightpath does not look promising for Manchester, and as i predicted many years ago, is this the new approach to birding sat nav tracking,
Will we end up with pagers that give us a bleep when the bird is in our patch, will it be like metal dectecting scanning the bushes and reeds for the bird.......
Oh hang on a minute.......it could be useful for those elusive bitterns hiding in the reeds.
whatever we do.
keep birding
Judith Smith said
Tue Apr 15 9:58 PM, 2008
PS the website is www.roydennis.org
Judith Smith said
Tue Apr 15 9:11 PM, 2008
Logie, the Osprey with the tracking device being followed from Africa to Morayshire, should pass over us tomorrow if she continues on the same route. Tonight, she is roosting at Redditch, having flown there from Sonning on the R Thames today and is following a NNW course. To see the website which shows her daily progress with a Google map, type Roy Dennis and Osprey into Google. It's fascinating.
Kane
-- Edited by Vaughan Evans at 19:08, 2008-04-20
Cheers Ian
From my quick pasting of maps together, the route looks like it heads roughly up the M6 making the west side of Manchester the most likely place to see the bird. Given the usual routine of fishing first before resuming the trip north and a speed of about 30kmh then we should expect her between 11.00 and 12.30 ...
Will we end up with pagers that give us a bleep when the bird is in our patch, will it be like metal dectecting scanning the bushes and reeds for the bird.......
Oh hang on a minute.......it could be useful for those elusive bitterns hiding in the reeds.
whatever we do.
keep birding