Ceulan is still in the same place that he has been for the last few weeks - just south of the Senegal River, around 40 miles inland from the Atlantic coast. He arrived here seven weeks ago today following his epic 12 day journey from the Dyfi, and he has hardly moved!

In mid October he did spread his wings a little to take a short fly-around Lac de Guier, a trip that took him two days. Other than that, Ceulan seems to be favouring his current location, as presumably, he has no reason to leave.

After three months of constant Welsh rain, I'm staying here.. 

Ceulan is not the only osprey to be taking full advantage of the Senegal River. Our colleagues at Scottish Wildlife Trust are tracking two of their young ospreys from this year, two boys from different nests. Blue 44 is from the Loch of the Lowes nest and is currently in the south of France - will he stay there?

We already know from ringing and tagging research that some ospreys do not migrate all the way to Africa. One of Roy Dennis' tagged adult ospreys, Beatrice, only goes as far as southern Spain.

Scottish Wildlife Trust's other tagged osprey, however, is remarkably close to Ceulan. Blue YD is just around 45 miles up river from Ceulan, and a couple of weeks ago on October 20th, was literally just a few fields away from him (see map). Did they see each other?

Another 2012 osprey tracked by Roy, a female called Fiddich, is currently just south of Lac de Guier, quite close to Ceulan's most southerly point on his lake excursion. Ceulan, Blue YD, and Fiddich are all within 50 miles of each other in a triangle, just a couple of hours flying time apart. How amazing.

Now wouldn't you just love to spend a week in Senegal with a telescope, a decent camera, and a Land Rover?

Just to remind you, Ceulan's transmissions now come in every four days, then every six days from December to mid March