{"id":5540,"date":"2020-05-04T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2020-08-28T22:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:54:40","slug":"roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Good timing Mouche!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/roy-dennis-cow-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5535\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/roy\/roy-dennis-cow\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/roy-dennis-cow-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,572\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Roy Dennis with Swiss cow\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Roy Dennis with Swiss cow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/roy-dennis-cow-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5535 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/roy-dennis-cow-1.jpg\" alt=\"Roy Dennis with Swiss cow\" width=\"1000\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/roy-dennis-cow-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/roy-dennis-cow-1-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were wondering about what to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roydennis.org\/category\/roys-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roy Dennis<\/a> for his big birthday today, and think that today\u2019s news might do the trick. <em>Mouche<\/em> (PR4), translocated from Germany and released in Switzerland in 2016, was looking serious about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/mouche-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nesting with AM06<\/a> in the French Department of Moselle. Now David Meyer has just informed us that she is incubating! Since the nest is at the top of a tall dead tree we do not know how many eggs there are, so we will probably have to wait until next month for more news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss reintroduction project, which started in 2015 with the translocation of six Osprey chicks from Scotland, has hugely benefited from Roy\u2019s decades of experience and good humoured guidance. Our heartfelt thanks go to him, and we send our best wishes for a wonderful 80<sup>th<\/sup> birthday and many more years of conserving Osprey, White-tailed Eagle, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roydennis.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all the other species<\/a> that he is devoting his life to.<\/p>\n<p>Since <em>Mouche<\/em>, \u201cour\u201d first known breeding female, is nesting in neighbouring France, let\u2019s hope that a \u201cforeign\u201d female Osprey may return the favour and join one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/males\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">single males<\/a> in Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5MO3H-roy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}