The Ospreys are back !!

Thanks Nell,  I've just had a peep and it's cheered me up greatly, so thanks again 

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.

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.

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 

Did you see the pictures of tye Pine Martin on Springwatch?  Bet you did not see the same Martin eating the Osprey eggs in the nest. Its what they do, Nature at its raw, but not in the sanitised BBC programmes.

At least that is natural predation as opposed to human predation where thieves steal eggs for some weird obsession or even worse shoot the poor birds for fun. Give me natural predation any day.

No problem with your logic but why not show the whole clip. All these TV programmes are so sanitised that people get the wrong impression of the countryside.

BBC-not so sanitised, there’s their Logo👍🏻

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.

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.