Blue Yz Is Missing :-(

[boxtops]

http://blogs.scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/osprey/

Thanks to tilly for flagging this up..... let's hope the transmitter has just stopped working, and nothing has happened to our bird - but we may never know.

If she has died, one way or another, then at least we have enjoyed her for a few months, her wonderful mother's 50th chick, and she has made an incredible journey to West Africa at only a few months old.

Let's keep hoping that we might see her again at Loch of the Lowes in the spring (her and her amazing mother).

[Tilly2]

It is very sad. It highlights what precarious lives these birds have. We should treasure each one.

[gness]

Sad news if she hasn't survived, Boxy....let's hope it's a transmitter problem.

[Tilly2]

Having watched her hatch and grow and fledged makes it all the more poignant, doesn't it?

[boxtops]

She's our baby!

[gness]

It does, Tilly....and it's never easy for them...but all is not lost yet. Maybe we will welcome her back next year....fingers crossed...x

[Tilly2]

Fingers and feathers crossed.

[Milvus]

You'll have to wait a bit longer Boxtops, she won't be back next year. Young Ospreys don't return for two or three years after migrating South. Let's hope it is a transmitter failure

[boxtops]

That's true, milvius, I remember reading that. Hopefully in the future, then!