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SAMSON IS BACK…NOW WHERE’S FREYA?

Wow! Who forgot to tell the weather powers that be that it was a public holiday this weekend? What a scorcher, unlike the wet, cold, miserable conditions that we normally suffer on such occasions. Samson returned to us on 11th but spent the first few days rarely visiting the nest or the immediate area soContinue reading “SAMSON IS BACK…NOW WHERE’S FREYA?”

THE 2019 ROLLER COASTER RIDE IS READY TO DEPART

Welcome to the 2019 osprey season. This is just a very short note to remind you that we are expecting our birds back at any time and, if you are in the area, to keep your eyes to the sky. For the previous 3 years, Samson has returned on 2nd, 9th and 7th April soContinue reading “THE 2019 ROLLER COASTER RIDE IS READY TO DEPART”

GETTING READY TO GO?

This will probably be my last blog of the year as I expect both Samson and Freya to depart shortly. They continue to frustrate attempts to work out any sort of routine for their movements and they appear and disappear from the nest area with gay abandon and no thought at all for us watchers.Continue reading “GETTING READY TO GO?”

OSPREY WANDERINGS

This is just a quick update to say that Samson and Freya are still with us but are often spending much of the day out of immediate sight so there’s little to report……except that Freya went visiting the neighbours on 5 Jul and intruded on an osprey nest full of chicks at Kielder, much toContinue reading “OSPREY WANDERINGS”

HAPPY RINGING ANNIVERSARY

(My apologies for the quality of the photos which were taken in extremely challenging conditions of intense sunlight, often straight towards the cameras, and heat haze. My thanks to Brian Clark for the first photo of Freya and the two of Samson bringing back nesting material, and to Kate Sumner Wilson for the two ofContinue reading “HAPPY RINGING ANNIVERSARY”

A STEEP LEARNING CURVE FOR EVERYONE

This year continues to throw up new surprises and new experiences and so I thought I’d better update you all on what is happening at Border Ospreys. Our new female is gaining familiarity with the area and spent a lot of the time during her first couple of weeks here flying around, fishing and fendingContinue reading “A STEEP LEARNING CURVE FOR EVERYONE”

BORDER OSPREYS ROLLER COASTER

Where to begin? What a few weeks it’s been since I wrote the first blog this year and that was traumatic enough. You will recall that Delilah had returned, albeit two weeks later, and we hoped that the ospreys season’s timing would just have shifted later by the same period. We were very wrong andContinue reading “BORDER OSPREYS ROLLER COASTER”

SAMSON AND (EVENTUALLY) DELILAH’S RETURN

This is my first blog of 2018 and has been delayed waiting the arrival of both of our ospreys. Samson arrived on 7 April, 2 days earlier than last year and we waited and waited for Delilah and, after 2 weeks beyond her arrival date in 2017, we were starting to have considerable doubts asContinue reading “SAMSON AND (EVENTUALLY) DELILAH’S RETURN”