Yellow HA was ringed as a male chick at nest B15 near Glenferness in Nairn on 8th July 2003. His mother had come from Norway while his brother was satellite tagged and made a successful migration to West Africa and wintered at the mouth of the Senegal River, before the battery went flat. Yellow HA was first identified at FindhornBay in 2007, and was seen again in 2009 and 2010 in the bay and visiting nests trying to find a mate and a nest. In fact it was looking good for him in 2010 at next B10 but he was kicked out by the later returning male. In 2011, he took over that nest and paired up with Morven and bred there successfully for last three years. He regularly fishes in FindhornBay. His transmitter, fitted in July, was one of the new GSM/GPS transmitters which communicate data through the mobile phone system.
He left FindhornBay on 26th September, a late migratory, and reached his winter quarters in the Sine Saloum National Park in Senegal on 14th October. He made frequent trips from his night-time roost in the mangrove swamps to fish around and roost on Ile d’Oiseaux. This is a favourite place for ospreys and where we filmed ospreys for the BBC Autumnwatch programme in 2012. May be I saw him that winter flying to and from the island.
Autumn migration 2013
