The Highland Foundation for Wildlife fitted the latest model satellite transmitters to a breeding female Osprey and her two young in July 2007. As the birds fly back to Africa this autumn, you can catch their progress live on our tracking map, and and – coming soon &ndash you’ll be able to watch Roy Dennis’ monthly video updates.
2007 has been an unusual season.
Many adults were late arriving in Spring, and more were missing than usual. There were also more changes of partners, as well as empty nests.
That’s because April saw strong winds, rain and overcast skies in north Africa and northern Spain there were. This delayed the Ospreys, or even swept them off course out into the Atlantic, where they were lost.
On top of that, the wet and miserable weather this summer in Scotland caused nests to fail. Sadly, some chicks died due to the cold and wet, and male Ospreys were unable to catch enough fish.
Late nesting also resulted in a number of late hatchings, even up to June, which will mean later departures for some of our Ospreys.
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