Author Archives: Rosieshields

A short blog to let you know that things on the nest are proceeding nicely and egg no 2 arrived at 1713 yesterday. There was further disturbance by a female intruder in the morning and early afternoon but she never got close enough to see a ring number. 565 intruded after the first egg wasContinue reading “NUMBER TWO”

I was waiting until an egg appeared before writing this blog but was getting concerned that time was passing and I was still waiting for the event. So yesterday I announced that I wasn’t going to wait any longer and would have to write and cover the egg arrival on a later blog. I jestContinue reading “FIRST EGG”

Driving down the track this morning to where I park my car by the nest, I was feeling pretty despondent as Samson had only been this late once before and that was when a weather system over southern France and Spain had held up many of our migrating birds. I looked across the field toContinue reading “WHAT A RELIEF!”

I hope that writing blogs at past my bedtime as has been the case with both this one and the last one is not going to become the norm but I didn’t want to waste any time in telling you all that Blue 500 (Augusta) touched down on the nest at about 1230 yesterday. IContinue reading “ONE DOWN…”

Welcome to the 2025 Border Ospreys’ season. Our own birds have not yet put in an appearance but we have had a couple of osprey visits that have been caught by the camera so I thought they would provide a gentle introduction to what will no doubt be another season of drama, both good andContinue reading “WAITING PATIENTLY”

I’d put my special blog-writing keyboard away for the season and was dreaming of 500 paddling in the warm waters of coastal Gambia or somewhere and Samson not far behind but it was not to be, so I have 2 bits of interesting news for you. The first is that 3AF came calling again onContinue reading “WELL, WELL, WELL”

I haven’t written a blog in a while as there had been very little to report since last time. Augusta (500) became a less and less regular visitor to the nest, although she often spent a couple of days in the immediate vicinity. Eventually, she was putting in an appearance on camera just once aContinue reading “GOING, GOING…?”

As you will probably have guessed as a result of the deafening silence from me, the miracle that we all hoped for didn’t happen and the eggs failed to hatch. Both Samson and Augusta (Blue 500) continued to incubate for a few days but Augusta in particular seems less and less inclined to sit andContinue reading “REALITY CHECK”

Lots of you have been asking if there is any way that one or more of the eggs will hatch, so I’m going to try and explain the various factors that will have an impact on the survivability or otherwise of the eggs. Right at the start, I must say that the chances are minusculeContinue reading “WHAT IF…?”

You will recall from my last blog how the bad weather meant that we lost the camera as the solar panels couldn’t charge and the battery went flat. We therefore couldn’t monitor fish deliveries but we knew they would be difficult in the pouring rain and flooded areas. We hadn’t seen a fish delivery onContinue reading “TRAGEDY”