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Logie's migration from West Africa to Scotland was better than any soap opera and we've still got her return journey to follow. On top of that, we can now follow her two chicks!
As we heard in our last report, Logie arrived back to her nest so late that her mate had almost given up hope and settled down with another female Osprey. Ospreys tend to breed with the same mate every year so it would have been very surprising if the intruder managed to fend off Logie. Thankfully, the intruder was ousted and Logie eventually produced three eggs, from which two chicks emerged. Roy weighed these two chicks and determined that they were both males.
Now that we have tagged these new members of the Logie family, we are all hoping for another epic adventure. Probably the most amazing element of this migration is that the chicks will be flying blind. Unlike Logie, they have never flown between Scotland and Africa so how do they know where to go? It's not as if they can follow their mum because she will start her migration a lot earlier and all the Ospreys migrate independently.
We can follow these chicks hour-by-hour so perhaps we can find out how newborn chicks reach unseen and unknown destinations.
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Next report: Logie goes missing
Last report: Logie arrives home to find a rival in her nest