What a great ending to the week. After 170 days of welcoming almost 50,000 visitors to the Dyfi Osprey Project this summer, today we close the doors for the last time this year with smiling faces as our ospreys are well on their way to sunnier climes.
Dulas started his migration on Monday at 14 weeks old exactly, and despite being blown off course by the back end of Hurricane Katia, he managed to turn south and into France after roosting his first night alone on a wind turbine on Gunfleet Sands off the Essex coast. By this morning he has just made it to Spain having flown over the Pyrenees. Not a bad flight correction.
Leri finally went on Tuesday morning having realised that the free food had dried up. Literally! She was also exactly 14 weeks old. Roosting near Basingstoke for the night she was on the north coast of France by midday Wednesday and south of Paris by early evening.
Einion has stayed around his stop-over point around 80 miles south of Casablanca, Morocco.
No wonder everyone's smiling around here!