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Bassenthwaite Ospreys 2015 (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Tiger_mz
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Good news about the Ospreys season starting over - Great to see how they get along this year. o
Tiger_mz
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Good news about the Ospreys season starting over - Great to see how they get along this year. o
Yes but they are all very late this year. The weather is against them.
I hope that things improve. Is the weather a big factor into Osprey successs and what is the latest they have ever been?
Tiger_mz
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It varies a lot as some birds come early and other late.
Here are the birds we are expecting. See countdowns
Red type means the bird is overdue.
Tiger_mz
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The male arrived on 4th April 2014 and the female on 7th April 2014
Tiger_mz
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Yes that is correct.
The Esthwaite birds have arrived, the Male has been taking fish and twigs up to the nest all day today. One fish looked to be almost as long as he is and one of the twigs looked to be twice as long as he is.
For a while he was back at the lake every 5 minutes and seemed to have a quick look around the lake before taking a twig/branch back to the nest.
Is it me? I cannot get a webcam view of the Bassenthwaite ospreys from this year. All I can see is a very old series of images from last year with the instruction to refresh the screen. Is this just a poor feed or has the address changed or am I doing something wrong?
http://www.ospreywatch.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=246
In fact the whole lakes site looks very poor in comparison to (for example) Rutland.
http://www.ospreywatch.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=246
In fact the whole lakes site looks very poor in comparison to (for example) Rutland.
Tiger_mz
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I do not think that Bassenthwaite has ever had a streaming webcam. It always had a picture every ten minutes or so.
However the ospreys have moved nest twice and that has upset any webcam facility.
No news of a second egg yet, on either the Lake District Osprey Watch page or their Facebook feed! Has anyone heard any news elsewhere, as I'm updating the news on Birdforum's Opus page for Bassenthwaite Lake, which also has lots of information on the viewpoints at Bassenthwaite, with access and facilities.
http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bassenthwaite_Lake
Helen
http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bassenthwaite_Lake
Helen
Tiger_mz
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No egg that I am aware of. They were suggesting on Twitter on Wednesday that it was looking likely. I pointed out that it was far too early and they agreed.
