Beatrice’s transmitter is not giving full number of GPS locations due to low battery – cloudy wet weather. But today’s first data shows that she has moved 92 km SW and last evening 2nd March from 1800 to 2000 hrs was on the Spanish side of the River Bidaso, just downstream of Ermita de San Miguel and some 5 km SE of Irun in the Spanish Basque Country. Clearly the fishing at Adour is not working out this year and she moved to find another place. The Bidaso is a smaller river running out into an estuary between Irun and Hendaye.
I emailed Aitor Galarza at Urdiabai osprey project today about Beatrice – he replied “Weather was extremely bad on Thursday and specially on Saturday with very heavy rain that caused flooding of rivers in all the North of Spain. Yesterday weather was Ok but rivers were still muddy” So it’s not surprising that Beatrice is trying to find better fishing opportunities. May be she should not have set off so soon – her earliest previous arrival at River Adour in spring was March 3rd.
Move from Adour to Irun
Fishing and roosting location River Bidaso
