The Lemon Fool

The Ospreys are back, and the loch is getting a lot of attention - perhaps related to the 2000 brown trout of around the 1lb mark which were stocked a couple of weeks ago. So today, as I lashed the water (with no success), I could at least enjoy watching the Ospreys. So it was Ospreys 3 Fisherman 0.

Would your ospreys perhaps merit an entry on the pic of the day thread?

UncleEbenezer wrote:Would your ospreys perhaps merit an entry on the pic of the day thread?

It would if I could. But I'm out wading in the loch, with my phone in a zipped pocket deep down inside my waders, and I'm holding a 10ft rod and line. The Ospreys soar high above the loch, and their dive is over in a flash. Then they are off. OK - I need to take along a proper camera, and sit on the bank waiting for action - while the 2000 brown trout keep rising and enquiring as to why I'm not attempting to catch them.
Anyway - thanks to Snorvey for his picture. In a week's time I have decided that with both vaccinations now active , I'll be back out in a boat - and maybe I can fit in a bit of photography.

Snorvey wrote:Here's a pic of one caught on our local river a couple of days ago.....

Nice pic - thanks. But that background is startlingly uniform. Contrast if I look out right now, the sky is cloudless blue[1] but there's a subtle gradation of colour/light moving upwards from just-above-the-treeline to high.

[1] Whatever happened to April Showers?

scotia wrote:while the 2000 brown trout keep rising and enquiring as to why I'm not attempting to catch them.

You're leaving them for the ospreys, right?

scotia wrote:

UncleEbenezer wrote:Would your ospreys perhaps merit an entry on the pic of the day thread?

It would if I could. But I'm out wading in the loch, with my phone in a zipped pocket deep down inside my waders, and I'm holding a 10ft rod and line. The Ospreys soar high above the loch, and their dive is over in a flash. Then they are off. OK - I need to take along a proper camera, and sit on the bank waiting for action - while the 2000 brown trout keep rising and enquiring as to why I'm not attempting to catch them.
Anyway - thanks to Snorvey for his picture. In a week's time I have decided that with both vaccinations now active , I'll be back out in a boat - and maybe I can fit in a bit of photography.

I should have thought that sharing a boat with another was probably one of the safer ways of passing a few hours.

Dod

Dod101 wrote:
I should have thought that sharing a boat with another was probably one of the safer ways of passing a few hours.

Dod

The boats, oars, landing nets, drogues and padlocks are all shared - i.e. handled by numerous individuals. So many of us oldies decided that it was better to give them a miss while there was a risk of Covid-19 infection - even although all members were exhorted to use hand sanitiser. Hence the wading. But with two doses of vaccine, and copious use of sanitiser, I'll soon be back to the boats - particularly for the long summer evenings.

Sounds good I must say. The only loch I know with ospreys is Loch o' the Lowes between Blairgowrie and Dunkeld.

Dod

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majestic flight - then drop like a stone into the water feet first .

big struggle to get off again if its a big fish .

in estuaries they catch flounder .

Dod101 wrote:Sounds good I must say. The only loch I know with ospreys is Loch o' the Lowes between Blairgowrie and Dunkeld.

Dod

We often visited the Loch o' the Lowes before Covid-19. My wife is a keen watcher of the nest - from the online camera. I believe the pair are currently sitting on eggs.
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/watch-wildlife-online/loch-of-the-lowes-webcam/
Year upon year the Ospreys have re-populated, and continue to repopulate in a southwards direction. Its some years since they arrived south of the Campsies.

After a couple of barren years there are two new ospreys on the nest at RSPB Loch Garten. Visible right now on the live webcam https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-ev ... eo-webcam/

Scott.

Fishing the River Deveron in April 2017 and this one came overhead. Can you spot it in the second photo? It dived into the stream and come out with what looked like a nice sea trout. Again, one nil to the osprey.

...I once saw an Osprey fishing. In Brent Cross reservoir - Neasden.

A woodpecker dropped into our garden last week. It bashed a couple of trees, but not the dead oak and flew off.

Just saying like

AiY

scotview wrote:Fishing the River Deveron in April 2017 and this one came overhead. Can you spot it in the second photo? It dived into the stream and come out with what looked like a nice sea trout. Again, one nil to the osprey.

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nice pics...

XFool wrote:...I once saw an Osprey fishing. In Brent Cross reservoir - Neasden.

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ospreys can be seen almost anywhere when they are on migration to/from africa .

jackdaww wrote:

XFool wrote:...I once saw an Osprey fishing. In Brent Cross reservoir - Neasden.

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ospreys can be seen almost anywhere when they are on migration to/from africa .

Much later on... that was my conclusion too. At the time I thought: "Surely it can't be an Osprey? They all live in Scotland."

XFool wrote:

jackdaww wrote:

XFool wrote:...I once saw an Osprey fishing. In Brent Cross reservoir - Neasden.

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ospreys can be seen almost anywhere when they are on migration to/from africa .

Much later on... that was my conclusion too. At the time I thought: "Surely it can't be an Osprey? They all live in Scotland."

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there are ospreys at glaslyn west wales , between beddgellert and porthmadog .

their website has a live feed of the nest .

Viewing Centre
Pont Croesor
Nr. Prenteg
Gwynedd
LL49 9SP

the brilliant welsh highland railway is in the area , also bodnant gardens .

Some idiot has felled an osprey nest platform at Brenig in North Wales with a chainsaw. One egg had already been laid.

Words fail sometimes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56955084

Scott.

...Sadly, I'd already seen that on the BBC website.

Well I hope for their sake that the locals don't get hold of them. We have friends who live close to where the nest was and the whole area is up in arms. They're hopeful that the female will go to another platform nearby and if this does happen there will be cameras on them night and day. Flogging is too good for some people.

R6