09 and AW settled in their winter routine
09 and AW may be wintering 600km apart – on the coastlines of northern Senegal and Guinea respectively - but their daily routines are very similar. The satellite data suggests that both birds are...
View ArticleThe migration facts
With 09 and AW both now settled on their wintering grounds, in Senegal and Guinea respectively, it has given us the opportunity to compare their flights to West Africa. As you will know if you tracked...
View ArticleAn Easy Life
We’ve just updated the Google Earth tracking page. As you will see both AW and 09 are settled at their wintering sites in Guinea and Senegal. In fact the latest data really does demonstrate what an...
View ArticleAW flies to Liberia, and maybe beyond!
All of the adult Ospreys tracked from the UK during the past decade have returned to the same wintering site each year. Once back at their regular winter haunt they usually venture only short distances...
View ArticleAW has Christmas in the Ivory Coast
I didn’t think I would be eagerly checking the satellite data on Christmas Day to find out where one of our birds has ended up, but that’s exactly what I’ve just done. Having spent the night of the...
View ArticleAW settled in the Ivory Coast
As we expected, the latest satellite data shows that AW has remained on a short section of the River Lobo in central-western Ivory Coast. Over the past week he has ranged along a six mile stretch of...
View ArticleWhen will the journey home begin?
How time flies! It is amazing to think that it is now less than a month before the first Ospreys will be back in Rutland. This year, for the first time, we’ll be able to follow our satellite-tagged...
View ArticleWhat has happened to AW?
If you have been following the website over the winter you will know that, following his move to the Ivory Coast in December, AW generally remained faithful to a short six-mile stretch of river in the...
View ArticleMystery solved!
On Thursday June 28th, John saw the young female who was the SIXTH Osprey from the class of 2010 to return to the UK. This female is the fourth two-year old to return to Rutland for the first time this...
View Article09 and AW settled at their winter homes
09′s latest data is in and it shows that, as we suspected, he has settled on the Senegal coast south of St Louis. So despite the fact that his territory in Rutland is just a few kilometres from AW’s,...
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