[Tiger_mz]

Originally Posted by HelenB

How's your Spanish, June? He was last reported on Saturday, 1st of September at 7pm, north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterranean coast. I wonder if he'll follow the coast and cross into Africa at Gibraltar.

From Paris he flew south, roosting for the night of 31st August, south of Toulouse, near the Pyrenees. On 1st September he entered Spain, kept west of Barcelona and stopped for 3 hours at the Ebro Delta on the coast. I guess he must have been fishing!

The Osprey team seem to be taking a couple of days to get the satellite maps posted on the Flickr Daily Diary: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch

The tranmitter will be programmed to transmit on a certain schedule. It will probably be either every two or three days just now.

The Loch Garten transmitters are on a three day cycle while Ceulan from Dyfi is on a two day cycle just now.

I think that lucky could strike south at any point.

[Tiger_mz]

Originally Posted by HelenB

How's your Spanish, June? He was last reported on Saturday, 1st of September at 7pm, north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterranean coast. I wonder if he'll follow the coast and cross into Africa at Gibraltar.

From Paris he flew south, roosting for the night of 31st August, south of Toulouse, near the Pyrenees. On 1st September he entered Spain, kept west of Barcelona and stopped for 3 hours at the Ebro Delta on the coast. I guess he must have been fishing!

The Osprey team seem to be taking a couple of days to get the satellite maps posted on the Flickr Daily Diary: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch

The tranmitter will be programmed to transmit on a certain schedule. It will probably be either every two or three days just now.

The Loch Garten transmitters are on a three day cycle while Ceulan from Dyfi is on a two day cycle just now.

I think that lucky could strike south at any point.

Here is an amazing audio by Roy Dennis talking about the incredible flight of Nimrod in 2008

[June Atkinson]

Originally Posted by HelenB

How's your Spanish, June? He was last reported on Saturday, 1st of September at 7pm, north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterranean coast. I wonder if he'll follow the coast and cross into Africa at Gibraltar.

From Paris he flew south, roosting for the night of 31st August, south of Toulouse, near the Pyrenees. On 1st September he entered Spain, kept west of Barcelona and stopped for 3 hours at the Ebro Delta on the coast. I guess he must have been fishing!

The Osprey team seem to be taking a couple of days to get the satellite maps posted on the Flickr Daily Diary: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch

My Spanish - non-existent. I'm a dedicated francophile, Helen. It was in the Périgord and the Auvergne where I first saw red and black kites, beginning an eight-year love affair with these majestic birds.
Yes, kites and ospreys are a meaningful part of my life; the kites all year round now that we have our re-introduced population and the delight of the ospreys as they return each spring!

[HelenB]

Originally Posted by Tiger_mz

The tranmitter will be programmed to transmit on a certain schedule. It will probably be either every two or three days just now.

The Loch Garten transmitters are on a three day cycle while Ceulan from Dyfi is on a two day cycle just now.

I think that lucky could strike south at any point.

Here is an amazing audio by Roy Dennis talking about the incredible flight of Nimrod in 2008

Thanks for the info and the link to the audio, Tiger. I will keep checking the Bassenthwaite Daily Diary for updates.

[Tiger_mz]

Originally Posted by HelenB

Thanks for the info and the link to the audio, Tiger. I will keep checking the Bassenthwaite Daily Diary for updates.

News of Ceulan is already in and he is safe. For some reason Dyfi are always faster than expected with the updates.

[HelenB]

Some disturbing news from Bassenthwaite. Over the last 10 days there has been great concern over the lack of movement from White 13. The transmitter has been sending sporadic signals from a mountainous area south of Valencia in Spain and the most recent have been from the same position, so the Osprey Team fear the worst. They have posted the latest map, with comments, on the Flickr Daily Diary:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/

[June Atkinson]

Originally Posted by HelenB

Some disturbing news from Bassenthwaite. Over the last 10 days there has been great concern over the lack of movement from White 13. The transmitter has been sending sporadic signals from a mountainous area south of Valencia in Spain and the most recent have been from the same position, so the Osprey Team fear the worst. They have posted the latest map, with comments, on the Flickr Daily Diary:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/

One has to be realistic even though it is not the outcome the Bassenthwaite team would wish. Are ospreys targeted at all on their migration by the shooting fraternity?

We live in hope of at least finding out just why the contact has been lost at this time and in this particular region.

[Tiger_mz]

Originally Posted by HelenB

Some disturbing news from Bassenthwaite. Over the last 10 days there has been great concern over the lack of movement from White 13. The transmitter has been sending sporadic signals from a mountainous area south of Valencia in Spain and the most recent have been from the same position, so the Osprey Team fear the worst. They have posted the latest map, with comments, on the Flickr Daily Diary:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/

I have had a contact from someone in Spain suggesting that they might go out there to have a look. They were asking how to get in touch with Bassenthwaite and I passed on some contact details.

[HelenB]

Originally Posted by Tiger_mz

I have had a contact from someone in Spain suggesting that they might go out there to have a look. They were asking how to get in touch with Bassenthwaite and I passed on some contact details.

Thanks, Tiger. It will be really interesting to find out what might have happened, if someone can get to the last known signal spot.

There's a comment on the Facebook feed from LDOP at Bassenthwaite, saying they are trying to make contact with local ornithologists in Spain, to go and search the area.

[June Atkinson]

Originally Posted by HelenB

Thanks, Tiger. It will be really interesting to find out what might have happened, if someone can get to the last known signal spot.

There's a comment on the Facebook feed from LDOP at Bassenthwaite, saying they are trying to make contact with local ornithologists in Spain, to go and search the area.

I have sent you a PM, Helen, from an Open University contact who knows people not far from this designated area.

[Tiger_mz]

Originally Posted by HelenB

Thanks, Tiger. It will be really interesting to find out what might have happened, if someone can get to the last known signal spot.

There's a comment on the Facebook feed from LDOP at Bassenthwaite, saying they are trying to make contact with local ornithologists in Spain, to go and search the area.

Well I have not heard any more from that source. I think that the distance might have been greater than first anticipated.

Someone is bound to go out there.

[HelenB]

The LDOP have reported that they have had searchers out to look for 13, but they have found nothing in the area of the last signal co-ordinates. In a way this is good news and could mean that the transmitter had just stopped working, but they obviously have no way of knowing where he is anymore.

Thanks to the searchers: Sergio Moran (Rescue Centre Manager), Pep Canto (Natural Park Ranger) and their helpers.