Morven had three chicks this summer with her mate Yellow HA, one of her brood was translocated to the Basque country reintroduction project. She left the area in August, while her mate remained until 26th September. He transmitter is no longer active.
Stopping over
September 22, 2013
Rothiemurchus us living along the River Eume, his favourite Galician stop-over, with a flight to the Ortigueira estuary on the north coast on afternoon of 15th September.
September 8th to 21st
Moved back
September 22, 2013
Beatrice was at the reservoir near Istvan until 21st September when she moved back to her usual wintering site on the River Guadiaro.
Reservoir to 21st September
Back to NW Galicia, Spain
September 12, 2013
By 0500GMT on 9th September he was on the French coast at St Valery, then at the next two hourly locations was just north of the esturay of the River Seine. He then flew SSW passing Mayenn an 1200hrs and Nantes at 1500. He flew out over the Bay of Biscay from Les Sables-d’Olonne at 1630hrs and at 2000hr was nearly a 100km west of the Gironde coast. The next signal was not until 0900GMT on 11th when Rothiemurchus was perched on the north Spanish coast west of Ribadesella. The next signal at 1400hrs showed that he had reached his favourite stop-off near As Pontes de Garcia Rodriguez. A flight of over 1000 km
Moving around Andalucia
September 9, 2013
On 1st September Beatrice tracked west across Andalucia to Vejer de la Frontera and then roosted in flatlands SW of Reservoir Celemin ( a place I visited several times) and next day visited the reservoir and then east before turning north and back to River Guadiaro. On 6th – 8th September she made another return trip to Reservoir de la Concepcion.
Sep 1st to 9th
On south
September 9, 2013
Rothiemurchus was south of Stoke on Trent by 9am and south of Chasewater an hour later which was the last signal of this batch. He kept on flying but turned SE being just north of Pitsford Reservoir at 1pm and flew on past NW of London and came to roost in woods near Halling Lake, SW of Gillingham in Kent.
Restarts migration
September 8, 2013
Rothiemurchus set off from Dalston on 8th September and was in central Lakes by midday. He then flew SE into the Lancashire hills and turned south to be just north of Manchester at 5pm. Continued south to roost overnight in a wood SE of Macclesfield
September 8th
On to Dalston, Carlisle
September 7, 2013
On 3rd, he flew around the Canonbie to Nichol Forest areas and by evening had reached favourite locations south of Dalston. He stayed around previous haunts in the Dalston area on 4th to 7th September
Still being seen at the Rothiemurchus fishery
September 3, 2013
Red 8T has had a successful summer rearing two young – he is still fishing for them – and is regularly at the fishery where he is the dominant male. Often chaing off other maleswhich annoys the photographerswaiing for good fishing shots!
Gone after a successful summer
September 3, 2013
Morven departed in mid August after a successful breeding season – her transmitter is now past its operating life so we have no migration data. I expect she will head again for the Mauritanian coast and the next report hopefully will either be on the Villaviciosa estuary next March or at her nest in April 2014
