This is a blog that features the movements of eagles reared in Scotland and fitted with satellite-received transmitters. This effort to better understand eagle dispersal is being undertaken by Natural Research and its partners: the Highland Foundation for Wildlife, the RSPB, SNH and the Scottish Raptor Study Groups. Eagles have been tracked since fledging and data from them will form part of a Natural Research funded PhD by Ewan Weston at Aberdeen University.

IF YOU CLICK ON THE MAPS THEY WILL OPEN IN ANOTHER WINDOW AND WILL BE MUCH CLEARER.

Wednesday 16 January 2013

57109 - 29 December 2012 - 14 January 2013

57109 started out the period in the hills SE of Newtonmore, where it has been over much of the past months (See earlier blogs).  1 January found the bird south of Aberfeldy in an area where we have tracked other golden eagles from previous years and near to where white-tailed eagles from the eastern reintroduction effort have been observed.  On 9 January it headed north again up into the Cairngorm massif, where it stayed (barring a little jaunt on 14 January to a block of forestry  west of Tomintoul) until 14 January.

32867: 1 - 10 January 2013

The new year found 32867 near the coast close to Na-Buirgh, SW of Tarbert.  Between 7 and 8 January it moved NE of Tarbert, and by the 10th it was located about 2 km east of Eisgean.