Beatrice continued her migartion, being north of Guadalajara at midday and over the SE fringes of Madrid at 1400hrs. At 1700hrs she was still glying to the south of Los Yebenes after a flight of 290km.

August 17th

Beatrice left the River Adour just after 0900GMT on 16th August and headed for the Pyrenees, where she crossed in a usual area north of Espinal. At 1400hrs she was over Pamplona flying south and roosted for the night SE of Soria after a flight of 227km.

August 16th

Beatrice set off on her autumn migration at 3 PM on 1 August after rearing another 2 young. The young are now being looked after by her mate. This is the eighth autumn that we have tracked her journey . On the first day she just made a short flight to the River Avon and roosted near a favourite haunt. She travelled up river next morning and at 9 o’clock was perched beside the river downstream from Tomintoul. At 1 PM she was flying over Mount Keen into Angus and roosted that night by the River Esk near Ferry bank. On 3rd August by 3 PM she was south of Forfar and roosted in a wood between Cuper and St Andrews in Fife.  Next day she stayed there in poor weather and on 5th flew a little north-west to Bridge of Cally.

August 1st – 6th

In better weather on 6 August she flew south over Edinburgh and across the border at 5 PM near Kielder and flew on over the lake to reach Teesdale by 7 PM and then roosted in Northern England. On 7th August she flew on south, being near Bradford at 1 PM, Sutton Coldfield at 5 PM and Chipping Norton at 7 PM, where she roosted nearby in trees by a small river at Heythrop Park.

August 6th – 7th

On 8th August she flew on south and by 1 PM was just west of Winchester  and two hours later was heading for Saint Catherine’s Point on the Isle of Wight  to start her crossing of the English Channel.  She flew on over the Normandy coast and roosted quite quickly  in farmland trees near Columbieres.

August 8th – Channel crossing

On 9th August she flew south through France passing Cholet at 1800 GMT . Continuing south she reached the River  Adour at midday on the 11th  just south  of Pontoux sur l’Adour  and two hours later had flown east to her favourite  stopover location on the River Adour.

August 9th – 11th

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Beatrice is still at the nest site – she has made one flight away of 600 metres. Her two young are flying very well and also close to nest ready for fish brought in by the male.

Beatrice is rearing chicks and she made her first flight away from the immediate nest area –  to a favourite loch 7 kms away at 1pm on 24th May

Beatrice still incubating but getting close to hatch dates – in the past three weeks the furthest tag reading was just 100 metres from nest. She has the same mate as last year and he’s been bringing in flounders from Findhorn Bay

Beatrice is now incubating eggs in her usual nest with last year’s mate

Beatrice is now settled in at her old nest for another breeding season, with active nest building and mating during today. Now switched to occasional updates during the spring and summer

Beatrice got back to her nest 2pm today and regularly there to dusk   Another summer starts

Beatrice had a good flight north in beautiful weather and at 6pm was flying north, just north of Dundee, I guess she will get home tomorrow. My friends near her nest saw one bird at the nest yesterday and two in the evening. They were present this morning and I checked them out – both were new birds and they were actively nest building.

April 5th