The Ospreys are back !!

www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/23453240.norfolk-wildlife-trust-hopes-osprey-will-breed-ranworth/?fbclid=IwAR30Rby57KhaQv28fH_t5nnud6q7yGy2oNKx6NtwMAuS3F74oNmipmcg2iI

Still around this afternoon. Now this would be good news!

I think that it might be a bit late for there to be a breeding pair this year s Ranworth, especially if a female has not been sighted yet this year, but should she arrive soon the two Ospreys may become a pair, and then return to the nest next year to breed.

I have not posted on Hereford while so here is a bit of an update. There have been 3 hatching reported on the viewer nests. As usual Manton Bay was the first, early yesterday, and rather surprisingly at the Threves next later in the day, with reports of the chick being fed at both.This morning it was the turn of the Loch of the Lowes nest, with a second one already making a hole in its egg. But unfortunately Laddie, the male at LoL, has not delivered any fish to the female, NC0, for a few days, which is not good, as she cannot leave the next to fish for herself.

At Loch Garten last year's female, Asha has returned, but not her partner from last year, Axel. She has however a new unringed mate, now named Brodie, who looks so very much like Asha that it is difficult to tell them apart. So far there is no sign of her laying, and it is getting late in the reason for a successful outcome, but things may get work out.

All the other nests which are watched, with the exception of a couple at Keilder, have eggs and the first round of hatching are fairly imminent.

Edit. There are two eggs in the Loch Garten nest, father unknown, as Asha had a mating with a male who has since disappeared since the arrival of Brodie.

Just seen this posted on the Loch Garten Osprey website Osprey Sightings posts. Good news from Yorkshire Wildlfe Trust!

https://twitter.com/Kezia47/status/1659617807221309446

Good to see Osprey chicks hatched at Poole Harbour.. Hope things go well as there is black plastic in the nest plus there was a spillage in the area not too long ago

I have not posted on this thread for a while and a huge amount has been going on, more later. However there are some brilliant photos of the pair at Balgarvies Loch on the last 3 pages of the attached link  which should make ABM happy.

https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/f/loch-garten-ospreys/282495/balgavies-loch-ospreys---2023#pifragment-4292=8

Not bad a chance to gather all the latest news from the observed nests, however at Manton Bay the 3 juveniles were ringed today, so it won't be too long before they fledge.

The two chicks at Loch of the Lowes were ringed on the 22nd, and identified as one female and one male.

All three look well and were ringed on 7th July. They are exercising their wings regularly. Won't be long now before they fledge.

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If anybody looks on the BBC news website and scroll down o photos of Scotland for the last week there is a good photo of an Osprey with a fish in its claws and a seagull behind that did not get anything.

Also an article on people and the countryside and they show you a pair of Osprey chicks being ringed, also on BBC news website.