The Ospreys are back !!

 Thank You  All,  Most Welcome News  for Brian,  A B M !!

Nellie

         That information is brilliant........thank you

ADP

Here are a couple of other web sites dedicated to Ospreys that are worth keeping an eye on. The first is for the Kielder nests and the second is the RSPB one for it's Poole Harbour nest , which has links to all their nest cameras reports.

https://kielderospreys.wpcomstaging.com/

 https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/f/loch-garten-ospreys/278713/poole-harbour-ospreys-2022#pifragment-4292=7

Once again Nellie thank you, much appreciated.

No problem!😊

Here's another link that should prove extra useful, as it has all the youtube links for the current streams from nesting sites cameras.

https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/f/loch-garten-ospreys/279388/osprey-chat---general---2022-season/1377977#1377977

Confirmed sighting of an Osprey today at Loch of Clunie

https://m.facebook.com/BalgaviesLochOspreys/posts/4948754465193768

That’s good news, Nellie. Let’s hope that the Llyn Brenig pair which had their nest toppled last year by odious individuals are well and return somewhere to successfully breed this year. Anyone know what happened re. Investigation and if a new pole has been erected?

Found this posted on the RSPB Llyn Brenig  web site dated 24th Jan.

"The final stage of the rebuilding of the osprey nesting site callously felled by vandals with a chainsaw last April was completed last week when Dŵr Cymru | Welsh Water & staff from Llyn Brenig winched a platform into place and assembled a new nest"

Don't yet know the outcome of the investigation, but have asked the question.

There is a Brenig FaceBook page which might interest you.

https://m.facebook.com/brenigospreyproject/

Micky, this is the full post on Brenig FB page about the new nest post.

 " The final stage of the rebuilding of the osprey nesting site callously felled by vandals with a chainsaw last April was completed last week when Dŵr Cymru | Welsh Water staff from Llyn Brenig winched a platform into place and assembled a new nest.

The work to repair the damage commenced after the ospreys had migrated away for the winter (to as far south as Senegal and Gambia). In October, Openreach and GT Williams kindly sourced and erected a new telegraph pole. Unfortunately, the next stage - the installation of the nesting platform - was delayed by Storm Arwen in November, which flattened trees nearby. The damage left by the gales prevented the access of heavy machinery intended to lift the platform on to the pole. The team’s only choice was to climb up and rebuild it all by hand. Once the support was in place, the team refashioned a new nest on top, stick by stick.

The platform, paid for out of donations from the public to North Wales Wildlife Trust following last year’s incident, is specially fabricated out of aluminium to make it long-lasting and safer for climbing access.

Storm Arwen did contribute one positive. Because trees were felled by the storm - and more will have to come down for safety reasons - the landscape is much more open, which should make the site more appealing to the ospreys. More about this tomorrow…

The completion of the nesting platform this month together with extra security measures in place offers hope that the magnificent birds of prey will return in in 2022.

Thanks Nellie, good stuff. You can only guess as to the motive which drove these callous people to do what they did. All premeditated but why? Let’s hope for a better 2020 Osprey year.