The bird was rung as one of a brood of three on 4th July at Conon Bridge in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps it will return one Spring, the first summer is normally spent in the winter quarters so we'll have a bit of a wait.
First Fieldfare of the autumn this evening on Bent Lane.
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Andy
ReplyDeleteWas this osprey at the top of the dead alder from the Wye? It is a grayling, which are bottom feeders usually, but do rise to the surface more as summer moves to autumn.
Thanks
Warren
Warren this photo was taken on a dead tree on the side of Peak Tor which is the conical hill just NW of Rowsley - don't know what the tree was but probably Sycamore. Some of the other Osprey photos this year on the blog were taken on the dead Alder near the lay-by on the A6 just N of Rowsley. Thanks for the fish I'd
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By Gum! I tried to snap it just after it had lifted off from the water with a fish in its talons. The osprey and I were only a short distance up river from the A6 lay by. The river there has some fine open glides around the two big bends. Plenty of fish available. The fish I saw it with was well over the pound mark. My pocket compact camera was not up to the task but I did get one very distant image of it.
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The Osprey began to arrive soon after we stopped stocking fish into the rivers. Only 3% of those tame fish would survive the first winter but they would outcompete the native populations before they left. This meant almost empty rivers. Now we study habitat improvement and rstoration of the elements needed by the fish :)
ReplyDeleteThe bird/s always arrive with a day or so either side of April 1st, our opening day for the fishery.