The Ospreys are back !!
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ABM, don't know if you looked at the Kielder Osprey site yesterday but there a super short video of a young male landing on the nest with a fish, and then taking off again still holding the fish and his partner hanging onto the other end of it and being lifted into the air. Quite a unique spectacle I guess.
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I see that there's still no joy at Loch Garten. There have been Ospreys seen in the area but none are inhabiting the nest. Such a shame.
At Poole Harbour the female is occupying the nest, and has even laid an egg but there's been no sightings of her mate.
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Got the ( Good ) shock of my week this morning -- turned on telebox for early BBC 1 news and found an osprey looking at me
. Loch Arkaig is getting good cover for their osprey nest and cheering Brian up no end 
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Louis & Aila have produced 3 eggs, laid on the same days as last year!! Chicks are expected from 1st June.
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ABM, don't know if you've seen the report but a new nest site has been erected at Keilder and is already being occupied by a pair of Ospreys.
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I see that the pair at Rutland have a couple of chicks already. They are the first of the recorded birds to have had eggs hatch, probably because they were the first pair to arrive back in Britain.
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Brian, just an update. The Rutland pair have now 4 chicks to look after, as the last one hatched on the 13th. They successfully raised 4 last year so hopefully they will do the same this time around.
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There are some excellent short videos of the nest sites on the links on the RSPB's Lock Garten Ospreys web site. I have a look in each evening just to see what's going on.
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Brian, have a look at the RSPB's Glaslyn Osprey page for yesterday , 20th, as there's a short video showing the first of their chicks breaking out of it's egg. Some excellent close up footage.
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Such lethal fish taking birds as they are, Nell, yet they can use that hooked beak to, oh so gently, ease bits of thin shell away to allow tiny chicks to hatch safely. And peeps wonder why I'm in love with the whole breed
.Two hatchings in one evenings viewing as well as seeing B2's pup get it's name -- I'll sleep well tonight
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Last week was not a good one for the Osprey chicks at Keilder, as 2 of them have died following 48hrs of dreadful weather, and another had a lucky escape, as it narrowly missed being carried off by a visiting Goshawk.
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Latest news...
30 Osprey chicks have been ringed so far this year at the monitored nest sites, with a potential of at least another 6, according to the data on the United Kingdom Osprey web site
This compare with 45 in 2018 and 61 (I think) in 2019.
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The four chicks at Rutland appeared to be doing well when I was there a month ago.
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It has been a good year for the Osprey chicks. Nearly all that hatched on the Kielder nests have now Fledged and some will soon be leaving their nests for good.
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Sorry about delay in replying but poor Wi-Fi at times.
There are some of the adults still around, but seem to be intruding on other nests. The blog from the web site is focusing on the young as they are still round the nests, but some have spent up to a day away at times.
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Looks as if all, or nearly all, of Keilder's Ospreys are on their way south. Hope they make it to their wintering sites and return next year.
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It would appear that Channel 4 have built lodges on Llyn Brenig, where Ospreys are nesting and trying to raise a chick. The Ospreys have taken umbrage at their presence and moved to the other side of the lake away from the Lodges. these lodges have been built with the owners of the lake, Welsh Water, in order to film a reality show.
Further info on the following website.Words fail me. Not often you hear that.
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Actually its ---> www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk
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so I thank you 
