2017 DOP Season in Cinematography
On this page you will find all the best videos from the 2017 season in chronological order and the season summary.
1. MARCH 21st: Testing the new 2017 cameras, pre-season. New 4K cameras looking AMAZING!
2. MARCH 30th: Love Blue 24
Blue 24 returns on 24th March, but who will take a chance on her?
3. APRIL 1st: Glesni Returns
At 10:24 on the 1st April, Glesni returns to the Dyfi and, for the first time, before Monty. This was no April Fool's joke!
4. APRIL 1st: Monty Returns
At 15:42, just five hours after Glesni arrived, Monty does also and wastes no time getting reacquainted! Did they meet each other up on the way north?
5. APRIL 2nd: Monty tests the new 2017 nest perch
6. APRIL 9th: If This is Love (The Luck)
7. APRIL 14th: Glesni Lays an Easter Egg
8. April 16th: Glesni - Supermum
9. April 17th: Glesni lays her second Easter Egg!
10. April 17th: Glesni lays her third egg
11. April 26th: A Scottish female intruder - Blue FK8 from a 2014 clutch at Tweed Valley. FK8 is tracked and winters in Portugal.
12. May 21st - 26th: All three chicks hatch
13. Clarach: 2013-2017 Life Video
14. Chick Aggression in Ospreys
15. 19th June - Growing up fast..
16. 20th June - With all the sunny weather we've been having in Wales recently (no, really), an osprey's wings double up as a great parasol.
17. Monty Dyfi Sunrise - as well as an osprey you will also find tequila and some eagles in this video
18. The Heron
19. Posh Pete Test 2017
20. The Ringing Video - 2017
21. Three's a Crowd
22. Aeron: Six Weeks Old
23. Osprey Feet - the osprey's claws are rounded and not grooved like many other raptors
24. Aeron Fledges - 11th July
25. Menai Fledges - 13th July
26. Osprey Family
27. Menai Straits
28. Eitha Fledges
29. Glesni Flying Lesson
30. Flounder or Plaice?
31. Monty catches two fish at once - for the second time this year!
32. Defibrillator
33. Do Not Disturb - Monty gets ambushed by a barn owl while asleep
34. Blue 24 Returns to the Dyfi
35. Monty Migrates: Everybody's Talkin'
2017 DOP Season Summary
24th March: Blue 24 returns at 13:54
28th March: Second Cors Dyfi nest platform removed under license. Blog here
30th March: View the 'Love Blue 24' ABBA video here
1st April: Glesni returns at 10:25
1st April: Monty returns at 15:42
2nd April: One side of the larch perch breaks off
14th April: Glesni lays an Easter Egg on Good Friday at 07:17
17th April: Glesni lays egg No 2 at 06:36
20th April: Glesni lays egg No 3 at 06:21
26th April: Scottish Intruder caught on DOP 4K cameras
4th/7th/10th May: Clarach lays three eggs in her Aberfoyle nest
21st May (Sunday): First Chick (Aeron) hatches at 12:45
22nd May (Monday): Second Chick (Menai) hatches at 23:12
26th May (Friday): Third Chick (Eitha) hatches at 09:05 - BLOG & VIDEO
12th/13th/15th June: All three of Clarach's chicks hatch in Aberfoyle
16th June: One of Clarach's chicks is missing; cause unknown
27th June: Chicks ringed, weighed, swabbed and named - Aeron, Menai & Eitha. Blog here
11th July: Aeron Fledges at 18:06 - 51 days old. Blog and video here
13th July: Menai fledges at 15:29 - 52 days old. Blog here
18th July: Eitha Fledges at 12:53 - 53 days old. Blog here
4th August: Clarach's eldest chick fledges. Blue LH0 (male) is 53 days old
8/9th August: Clarach's second chick fledges, Blue LH1 (male)
13th August: Aeron migrates at 83.8 days old. Blog here
14th August: Glesni migrates - last seen 17:20
17th August: Glesni's cousin Blue 3J(13) visits - video here
24th August: Menai migrates. Blog here
26th August: Eitha migrates. Blog here
1st September: Blue 24 returns. Blog here
2nd September: Monty and Blue 24 migrate. Blog here