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Thursday, 2 July 2009
Ringing & tagging.............
Posted by richardthaxton
The time has come, well almost. We plan to ring and satellite tag the young ospreys on Monday 6 July at c.8 am. This is somewhat dependent on weather. If conditions are not right, then it will be postponed until that evening possibly or even the next...
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Fishtastic
Posted by davidanderson
Super Odin, Odin the Magnificent, Odin the Great, Odin the Fish Dude, Fishy Odin....... ok so maybe not the last one but whatever way you look at it we could not have asked for a better male! He seems intent on breaking every and any record we have, just...
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Odin's Ode
Posted by clairefoot
Patrick Preston is volunteering at Loch Garten this week. Patrick has been making his annual volunteering trip here for more years than he can remember, and over that time he has become something of a poet laureate for Loch Garten and the osprey. He penned...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
How marvellous is this........
Posted by richardthaxton
I just took a phone call from Mrs Mckintosh a teacher at Quarryhill Primary School in Aberdeen. "Just to let you know", she said, "that you're on speaker" and I found myself talking and listening to the pupils of her Primary 4/5...
Monday, 22 June 2009
EJ rewrites the textbooks…again!
Posted by clairefoot
Last year, we were shocked on 17 June when EJ disappeared from view and returned a couple of hours later with a fish. All the textbooks say that the female does not start to fish again until the chicks have fledged and yet here was EJ collecting fish...
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