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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capercaillie71" data-source="post: 1180049" data-attributes="member: 32437">Just thought I would flag up this thread again, because I think it's even more interesting than the osprey migration satellite tracking.  I've been fascinated by the huge distances this bird has travelled, often over a very short period of time.  She was only 2.5 miles from my house a week or so ago, which made me think about the young golden eagle I saw near here a couple of winters ago.  At the time I wondered which of the local home ranges it could have come from, but now I realise it could have hatched more or less anywhere between here and Fort William!I notice that the main page says she is now in the Daviot-Cawdor area near Inverness but the map hasn't been updated for a few days.  Perhaps it's not surprising that precise details of her location aren't being made public given the terrible record that area has for wildlife crime:<a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/599105" target="_blank">http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/599105</a>(from today's paper)</blockquote>