The week has not started well. We've had an application for new HD cameras funding turned down, but more worryingly, satellite data from Leri is not looking good.

We have no confirmed waypoint information at all for her for October 25th and 26th, and what we have for her on the 27th, 28th, and 29th is very worrying. Every time her tracker moves it generates a random number which is different for each movement, this number has now been the same for several days indicating that the tracker hasn't moved. What's confusing is that after October 27th, we have full, confirmed Google Earth GPS waypoint information for Leri indicating that she is moving, albeit covering only a few hundred meters at most. Many of these data points show a speed of just a few miles per hour, 3 or 4 mph, which is strange. A couple also show unrealistic altitudes.

Have a look at this one from last Saturday morning at 9am. Could Leri really be almost a mile up, doing just over half a mile an hour?

Clearly, there is something wrong. What we are all hoping for, of course, is that the satellite tracker has either fallen off Leri or is malfunctioning. To make things worse, the three-day transmission window for Leri changes to five days in November throughout the winter. We will only be able to download data for her now every five days. Unfortunately, this cannot be changed remotely.

On a brighter note, both the boys, Einion and Dulas, seem to be doing fine and are still in the same areas they have been for several weeks now. A quick tip: as the ospreys are now spending longer at the same areas, it can be confusing to look at Google Earth with sometimes a mass of points at the same spot - a favourite feeding or roosting tree, for example. You can filter the information you're interested in to selective days by moving the start and end sliders on the top left of your screen. This example is from Einion's latest GPS positions, just showing where he was on October 30th.