Ceulan has reached the Senegal River. It took him five days to cross the Sahara desert from the Atlantic coast of northern Morocco, a journey of over 1300 miles. He ate little, if at all, during this time. Perhaps the most pleasing aspect of Ceulan's migration has been the direction he has chosen. He seems to go in straight lines, never veering off the conventional osprey migration route and 'getting lost'. The directionality of his Wales-to-Senegal migration has no doubt helped him get there in record time. His migration has been problem-free, quick, and textbook in execution.

After crossing the largest desert on earth, things are again looking greener for Ceulan

Yesterday afternoon, Ceulan was hopping from one side of the Senegal River to the other, geographically moving between Mauritania and Senegal. He's near the town of Rosso, right on the river itself around 44 miles east of the African Atlantic coast. Ceulan is just 52 miles and 68 miles northeast of the last GPS sightings of Leri and Einion respectively, a couple of hours flying time. If only we could speak to him.

September 15th and 16th - how long will Ceulan stay around the Senegal River?

For all the incredible amount of data we're getting back from Ceulan's transmitter, we don't know how much he has been eating, of course. Is he in a decent condition after his marathon migration? At least now he's in a place where food should be relatively easy to come by.

So many questions. How long will Ceulan stay here? Are there other ospreys around or has he, by virtue of his expeditious migration, beaten most other ospreys to Africa? If he 'accidentally' met up with his mother Nora - what would happen? Wouldn't you just love to see that behavioural interaction..,?

Whilst the Dyfi Osprey Project was still open in August, many visitors would ask why is Ceulan always food begging? He would food solicit even he had a two-pound mullet in his talons, with no chance of anyone else taking it away from him!

That'll be mine then, thank you..

The answer is there for us all to see now. His gluttony back in the Dyfi has served him well, he was fattening himself up for his epic journey. He will hopefully do the same again now in his new location, he'll just have to catch his own fish from now on.

I'm writing this on Monday morning, September 17th. Ceulan started off exactly two weeks ago on Monday morning, September 3rd. He had reached the Senegal River by the Saturday afternoon the following week - a 3,000 mile migration in 12 days. Not bad for a first-timer. It's a shame he missed the Olympics, he would have given The Bolt a run for his money.