For a couple of weeks now, there have been up to three Ospreys fishing in the lagoons and estuary at Alvor. This morning two arrived in fairly quick succession and gave good views as they commenced their fishing sorties. No fish were caught by either Osprey after several 'runs' over the lagoon and they appeared to leave the area in opposite directions. This location had another nice surprise when I found two Shelduck, which I knew were around somewhere, by ongoing reports on eBird. A Shelduck is not a common duck here and are only found in a few Algarve locations. These two look very much like a pair. A large black cloud was closing in at an alarming rate and as we made our way back to the car, I was staggered to see one of the Ospreys sitting in a tree, 50 metres from the car! You can see that this young Osprey has a metal ring on the right leg and a colour ring on the left. Although it's not possible to make out all the characters on the plastic ring, the black colour with white lettering denotes the Osprey is probably of German origin.
The other Osprey seen was an unringed bird.
Valerie
23/1/2020 09:25:14 pm
In Alvor this afternoon and watched the osprey but not seen the ringed one Comments are closed.
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