09 September 2010

Morven at east end of Loch Calder at 10.33am today.

08 September 2010

Morven is still up in Caithness but more on the eastern side with locations on the 6th September just north of Loch Watten at 4 and 5pm, and an hour later near the Loch of Toftingall. A non GPS location for midday today gave her still in the same general area. Last year she left Caithness on 10th September to start her migration to Africa.

04 September 2010

Unfortunately Morven's transmitter has been a problem for a long time and is failing to provide data most days.

On 26th August, Stan Laybourne sent me his observations after going out to search for Morven near his home in Caithness. 23rd Aug, 1545h: from the S end of L Calder I saw her hunting over the N end. She moved to the W bay and hovered then dropped below the tree tops. I drove up E side but failed to relocate. 24th Aug, 1400h: she was perched on a fence post at Loch Calder, and on 25th at 1600h: perched on same fence post, feeding. But he failed to find her on 26th August. On 28th a GPS signal placed her further SE in Caithness, probably heading back home.

From a recent transmission, it looks as though she went back to Moray as she was on the Black Isle on 30th August, and flying back north over the Moray Firth on 31st, and then roosted overnight near the Causeymire windfarm in Caithness. At midday on 1st September she was near Loch Olginey in Caithness.

18 August 2010

Sometime before the 18th August, Morven left the breeding site and flew north over the Moray Firth to her favourite haunts in Caithness. Her transmitter is still not operating properly with just occasional data transmission, but three GPS locations during this evening showed she was at Loch Calder.

02 August 2010

Two chicks growing well and the few times I've called by to check the nest, Morven has been perched in the dead pine beside the eyrie tree.

25 July 2010

Visted the nest today and saw Morven perched in the dead Scots pine waiting for her mate to return with fish. The two chicks were low down in the nest, with heads occasionally popping up.

10 July 2010

Morven perched in Scots pine above the nest this afternoon, and I could see two chicks in the nest with my telescope; there could have been a third lying down.

29 June 2010

Visited the nest site at 0740am and found Morven standing in nest, obviously with small chicks.

12 June 2010

Morven sitting tight when I checked this afternoon - it had been raining much of the morning.

23 May 2010

Morven sitting tight. Transmitter gave fixes at nest on evening of 18th May.

12 May 2010

At last she has laid eggs and this morning was incubating, after a night of snow. She looked rather wet but was sitting tightly.

30 April 2010

Today she was perched at the nest with her mate - at last looking a bit settled. A GPS position showed that she was at the nest at 3pm yesterday.

25 April 2010

Morven was again in Caithness; at 1pm she was perched 100 metres osuth of Loch Rangag beside the Thurso road, and two hours later was perched 700 metres to the south of the loch.