Last week was a crazy one. I found myself ringing various people up with the opening line "You won't believe this.."
It started off with Janine texting from Africa - "We're just off to see Dulas". This despite initially thinking they would not have enough time in their itinerary to venture that far up the Gambia River to where he was. This was first thing Monday morning, January 16th. The messages from Africa got more desperate as the day grew long - by nightfall, and despite around a dozen pairs of eyes searching high and low throughout the day in the exact area Dulas has been in for the last three months, he could not be found. Janine will write the next blog about her African trip.
Around about the same time, Roy Dennis emailed me from Scotland. Rolf Wahl, who has been studying and recording ospreys in the Orleans Forest just south of Paris since 1995, had received a photograph from Senegal of an osprey with a transmitter and a ring on his right leg. It wasn't one of Rolf's but Roy knew who it was straight away - it was Einion!
Osprey with Blue DH leg ring and transmitter - it's Einion. © Arnault Vatinel