Loch Of The Lowes Osprey Webcam 2011 (1 Viewer)

[Cosworthlady]

only 3 or so weeks til the ospreys are back in the UK after wintering in warmer climes. So far there have been 2 recorded sightings of early birds who are back.

What Will this season bring? Will our marge return? Will the hapless Frank come back? Only time Will tell. All we can be assured of is that it'll be a rollercoaster ride .

When the new camera is up and running on the nest I'll post a link to it or if anybody else sees it please post it. Looking forward to seeing all the familiar names and greeting new ones.

Hold onto your breeks and hats folks ...... The season is about to start.

 

[delia todd]

Hi Ann

As you say, it won't be long now.B I was just going to say it can't be as dramatic as last year, but you never know do you..... but surely not....

D

 

[Cosworthlady]

oh Delia i hope not. Last year nearly done me in lol.

 

[Marmot]

Dont know if you saw this which I put on last years thread about our Marges life story coming out next month.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1Z2Y86DPQTS4C6TD8HYZ

 

[Cosworthlady]

yes I've pre ordered it. There is also a book that the bloggers made and its brilliant. It tells the story of last years season with poetry from the bloggers. I have 3 poems in it. Its available from the Scottish wildlife trust. I can really recommend it. Its called lady of the loch. All money raised from it went towards the chicks being tagged. Its £12 plus postage. Ann chaplin ordered 2 it was that good

 

[Cosworthlady]

the lady who wrote the book sadly never got to see our marge. She didn't go to the loch until the 4th august and by then she'd done her fly past and was on her way south.

 

[Cosworthlady]

Roy Dennis's Beatrice is on her way home to Scotland. She started her journey on the 4th.

 

[Tiger_mz]

Hi Anne,

Glad to see you got the new thread up and running. It seems as if the season has already begun not like in the old days when we had to wait well into April before the communications started.

Just for the record I think that Marge will be back

 

[Tiger_mz]

Hi Ann

As you say, it won't be long now.B I was just going to say it can't be as dramatic as last year, but you never know do you..... but surely not....

D

History has told us not to say that. A Great Horned Owl has laid eggs in the Lake Barkley osprey nest in Kentucky. That is pretty dramatic for a first event of 2011. I think the osprey will have to conclude that they need a new home.

 

[Cosworthlady]

oh tiger!! That doesn't bode well for a relaxing season lol hope you are well btw

 

[Cosworthlady]

Hi Anne,

Glad to see you got the new thread up and running. It seems as if the season has already begun not like in the old days when we had to wait well into April before the communications started.

Just for the record I think that Marge will be back

that would be awesome. Put it this way i won't be surprised if she comes back. I also won't be surprised if she doesn't though. I'd love her to return.

 

[delia todd]

Agree with that Ann.

Though... if she doesn't come back I think we'll be in for another roller-coaster ride, with females battling for the nest.... heartbreak with broken eggs... gawd - don't think I can watch:eek!:

D

 

[Ian Bell]

Sightings

only 3 or so weeks til the ospreys are back in the UK after wintering in warmer climes. So far there have been 2 recorded sightings of early birds who are back.

Where have the sightings been ? Surely not in Scotland ? Im hanging onto my breeks..!

 

[Tiger_mz]

Where have the sightings been ? Surely not in Scotland ? Im hanging onto my breeks..!

Yes there has been a sighting in Scotland Kincraig which is near Loch Garten.

 

[Ian Bell]

Yes there has been a sighting in Scotland Kincraig which is near Loch Garten.

Thanks Tiger.Thats a very early bird for up this way.

 

[Cosworthlady]

I'm gonna dream of ospreys

 

[Cosworthlady]

2 more ospreys spotted this evening and this morning. One in Devon and the other in lancashire.

 

[Cosworthlady]

and another in Preston woo hoo. They're here.

 

[kawwauser]

these ospreys are early birds,i have a pair of mutes nearby which have been sitting on a nest for at least 5 days, strange after the severe winter we have had,if marge returns im going to make her my number one osprey visiting place,i have a few breeding pairs near me but marge certainly will deserve first place

 

[Cosworthlady]

these ospreys are early birds,i have a pair of mutes nearby which have been sitting on a nest for at least 5 days, strange after the severe winter we have had,if marge returns im going to make her my number one osprey visiting place,i have a few breeding pairs near me but marge certainly will deserve first place

i have butterflies just thinking about her.