Millie and Breagha
Jen Clark Jen Clark 22 Sep 2014 4:12 PM
Downloading information from the osprey’s trackers is like waiting for exam results. I have to refrain from hiding behind my fingers as I wait for the points to pop up on the screen, hoping to see that there has been movement from our birds. There is a sigh of relief as the data comes through showing that the bird has moved, even if it isn’t very far, which is often the case with our boy, Breagha. And although his movements aren’t as exciting as the current year’s osprey chicks as they pass from country to country, passing over large bodies of water, risking their young lives as they go it alone for the first time, he is at least safe and that is really what we care about.
This was the case with today’s download, as we downloaded Breagha first, hoping not for the unexpected and thankful to find out that he is still doing well, no change to his usual pattern. I could show you the map but it looks not much different to the one in the last blog. He is still spending time in Senegal by the River Casamance.
Millicent is up next, her download a little bit more nerve-wracking as she is the more unpredictable of the two...or so we might presume. In fact, she hasn’t changed her routine since the last download. She is still on the Mauritania-Senegal border just north of Richard Toll, on the Mauritania side of the border. Her pattern hasn’t changed, spending her days on the same body of water on the north side of the Senegal River at Richard Toll, and going to an arid, drier region about 10km north of here to roost in the evenings. At 18.00 GMT on both the 18th and 19th Sept she spent time on a tributary to the Senegal River, hopefully catching some fish but whether they are as tasty as a trout from the Spey, I cannot say.
We can only guess as to how Druie is getting on and hope that she too has found a safe place to settle in Africa.