Not Long Now

[Wildfisher]

A distant juvenile osprey at Balgavies Loch this afternoon. Not long now until they head for Senegal.

[Fishtales]

Didn't I read somewhere that some are resident in the south of England and others are overwintering in Portugal?

[Wildfisher]

I recal something similar Sandy. After all Portuguese winter are at least as good as Scottish summers. 

[Fishtales]

I can't find anything online but I remembered when I was watching the tracking site that one youngster stayed around the South of England for a few weeks after leaving Scotland.

[arawa]

A few years ago when lobster pot fishing with a friend in December, we saw an osprey also fishing. Both of us have seen plenty of ospreys and were in no doubt.
I reported it to the RSPB and was told there had been other sightings. We were out often afterwards but did not see it again.

[Laxdale]

They will move south when the fishing local to them slows down. Then off south until they come cross the next stocked fishery providing an easy meal. Probably a good thing as they then avoid most of the savages around the Med trying to shoot any migratory bird that flies close enough.

[burnie]

One over wintered in Spey Bay area a few years back.

[arawa]

One over wintered in Spey Bay area a few years back.

Might have been the one we saw off the Cromarty Sutors.