{"id":6499,"date":"2021-12-30T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:32:34","slug":"rafale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/rafale\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Christmas Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2019-rafale.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6501\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/rafale\/2019-rafale\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2019-rafale.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1041,661\" 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=\"2019-rafale\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Rafale F14 and Tino F22&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2019-rafale-1024x650.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6501 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2019-rafale.jpg\" alt=\"Rafale F14 and Tino F22\" width=\"1041\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2019-rafale.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2019-rafale-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2019-rafale-1024x650.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a>What a pleasure to receive a message from Daniel Schmidt on December 25 saying that he had just found a photo (see below) of our female <em>Rafale<\/em> (F14), while checking the contents of a camera-trap from a platform in north-eastern Bavaria. She was pictured on August 2, visiting this\u00a0 nest where two young\u00a0 had already fledged.<\/p>\n<p>Translocated from eastern Germany on June 25, 2019, <em>Rafale<\/em> had been released at Bellechasse on July 29 (above photo of her with <em>Tino<\/em> F22), and migrated on September 3. After the male <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/radar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Radar<\/em> (F16)<\/a>, this is the second bird from our \u201cclass of 2019\u201d confirmed back in Europe this year.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6503\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/rafale\/210802-rafale-crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1697,1391\" 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=\"210802-Rafale\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Rafale F14 21aug21&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop-1024x839.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6503 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Rafale F14\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop-1536x1259.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210802-Rafale-crop.jpg 1697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This great surprise means that the pattern from previous years, with at least one male and one female known to have returned, has continued:\u00a0<em> Fus\u00e9e<\/em> (PR9) and <em>Mouche<\/em> (PR4) from 2016; <em>Taurus<\/em> (PS7) and <em>Flamme<\/em> (KF6) from 2017; and <em>Arthur<\/em> (F12) and <em>Plume<\/em> (F02) from 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that other birds may also have returned, but have not been found yet (for a large species, Osprey can be very discrete).\u00a0 We suspect that an adult male seen during the summers of 2020 and 2021 along the Doubs River may be one of ours, possibly <em>Fus\u00e9e<\/em> (PR9) who has not been spotted for sure since 2019. With just a metal ring (of the same model we use) on his left leg, it is likely that the blue plastic ring on his right has been lost.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is clear, we are anxiously counting the days to see what surprises next spring will bring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a pleasure to receive a message from Daniel Schmidt on December 25 saying that he had just found a photo (see below) of our female Rafale (F14), while checking the contents of a camera-trap from a platform in north-eastern Bavaria. She was pictured on August 2, visiting this\u00a0 nest where two young\u00a0 had already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/rafale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Christmas Present<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-6499","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-rafale","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499","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=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}