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  • Eaglet 106 2011

    Eaglet 106 2011

    Movements of 106 in 2011 09 January 2011: Remains at home The female eaglet continues to live around the Ben Griams within the parents' home range. 21 January 2011 She was a little to the west of the main range today, being 3km north of Loch Rimsdale. 25 January 2011: No change Between Loch Rimsdale and Loch Strathy on 25th January. 02 February 2011: Off on her travels The young female eagle 106 has left her home range in the Flow Country after a stay of just over six months with its parents (her sibling 107 left 3 months earlier). She flew west and at 3pm on 27th she was near Ben Auskaird, 6 km southeast of Scourie in West Sutherland, she stayed there until 10am on 28th. By 4pm, she was by a loch southeast of Ben More Assynt, where she stopped until moving to upper Strathoykell, north of Duchally, at 10am on 30th. By 4pm that day she had gone further to the east and was southeast of Glencalvie Lodge. Again she lingered and her next move was south to Ben Wyvis, where she arrived 4pm on 1st February. She roosted that night a little further north in a craggy valley to the west of Wyvis Lodge. Next day she flew west and at 4pm on 2nd was just to the northeast of Aultguish Inn on the Ullapool road. Is she going to turn into a traveller like her brother 107? January 25th to February 2nd 07 February 2011: To Wester Ross On 3rd February, 106 flew west to Rhiddoroch Estate, northeast of Ullapool, by 4pm and was in the same area north of Rhiddoroch Lodge by latest location 4am on 6th.