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Gone fishing and osprey watching

23 May 2004   

 

Gone fishing and osprey watching

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This was taken about the same time last year.

First time I've been for a year. And I could have caught another, if my net wasn't such an awkward devil to set up with one hand. The bugger shook the hook as I tried to untangle the net.

But, better than the fish, as I was leaving I spotted what I thought must be a buzzard over the water. Keew-keewing. Odd noise, odd over water, then it hovered for a split second, and dived into the water!

An osprey. Two, three of them! Unbelievable! I watched with another fly-fisher, as she repeatedly hovered and dived. We saw her take at least two fish, one was too big and she dropped it.

old trout for dinner

Apparently, they've been here for a few days now. I'm sure it must be longer, and sure she's nesting nearby.

Ospreys were so rare that when I was a kid, I'm sure there wasn't any breeding pairs at all, and they were reintroduced into Scotland. For them to have come this far south means they must be doing really well.

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Others know about them already: The long-projected nesting platforms in Shropshire have now been put up . Special thanks to GPU Power for providing the telegraph poles and the vehicles etc to erect them.

Two are at Wood Lane NR near Ellesmere in the north and two at Chelmarsh Reservoir NN south of Bridgnorth. Another will go up later at Monkmoor sewage works NR on the outskirts of Shrewsbury.

 


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