It is a beautiful sunny day with clear skies on the Canadian Prairies but it is raining tear drops in the UK this morning.
This is a very early posting – longer one for this evening – to acknowledge the loss and sorrow. The chicks at Poole Harbour made history when their eggs were laid, when they hatched, and then fledged. It is a great loss. Sadly, the Goshawks are also being reintroduced. Their are formidable enemies of the osprey if you have ever witnessed an attack.
H52 the osplet that was attacked by the Goshawk on the Poole Harbour nest has, sadly, died.
The attack that took H52’s life:
At the Loch Garten nest, IC1 passed away this morning after being ill for a couple of days.
IC1 watching IC2 return from a flight yesterday.
Condolences go out to both Loch Garten and Poole Harbour – to the Osprey families and all their followers. This is just tragic news in a growling list of young osprey deaths in 2022.
Thank you for joining me. I am so sorry to bring you such sad news.
Thank you for their streaming cams where I took these screen captures.
I went to the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1990 and received my PhD from the University of Leicester in 1993. After three decades of university teaching, I retired to devote my time to the study of raptor behaviour. I am particularly interested in Ospreys and am working on a long term project on third hatch survival and siblicide in these raptors. My blog is a result of a fascination with my local wildlife and the desire to encourage others to love and care for birds! I live on the Canadian Prairies and prior to the pandemic travelled a lot. I am questioning the use of aviation fuel at the moment as we all strive to help our planet. My early research was in politics and art including British public statues exported to Southeast Asia and Vietnam Resistors that contributed much to Canadian ceramics. Books and articles were published on those subjects over a period of 3 decades. Now I am working on books for children so they can learn about the challenges our raptors face.
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Tremendously sad news this morning loosing both ospreys.❤️❤️ May both Rest In Peace. 🙏🙏May God protect the rest who are still there. 🙏❤️
Thanks for this update Mary Ann
Linda
Sad news today indeed. So sorry for 5H2 and IC1. And for all the others on that growing list. Thanks to Poole Harbor for getting 5H2 to care quickly, so we knew he had the best chance possible.
You are so right – they got there as quickly as they could and got the best care imaginable for H52. Those darn Goshawks wait…and it was a juvenile female apparently. She probably landed around there by accident..They will do a necroscopy on 1C1. I hope the results are reported publicly. It has always been a mystery since Big on Captiva passed mysteriously. But, yes, sad,, sad news. There are so few Ospreys in the UK compared to the US that each lost – and especially at these two nests – well. It is heart breaking.
Tremendously sad news this morning loosing both ospreys.❤️❤️ May both Rest In Peace. 🙏🙏May God protect the rest who are still there. 🙏❤️
Thanks for this update Mary Ann
Linda
It is always so sad…and even sadder when they are fledging and are lost. As B says, H52 was so lucky. He had the best of care any osprey could have.
Sad news today indeed. So sorry for 5H2 and IC1. And for all the others on that growing list. Thanks to Poole Harbor for getting 5H2 to care quickly, so we knew he had the best chance possible.
You are so right – they got there as quickly as they could and got the best care imaginable for H52. Those darn Goshawks wait…and it was a juvenile female apparently. She probably landed around there by accident..They will do a necroscopy on 1C1. I hope the results are reported publicly. It has always been a mystery since Big on Captiva passed mysteriously. But, yes, sad,, sad news. There are so few Ospreys in the UK compared to the US that each lost – and especially at these two nests – well. It is heart breaking.