The Ospreys are back !!

Strange that this late there are still reports of Ospreys moving through Norfolk.  Normally they would have been long gone up north

Sadly,  OP,    my  favoured  site  at  Loch  Garten  has  had/ is  having  another  catastrophic  nesting  year.

Female  EJ  has  laid  three  eggs  eventually  but  her  new  male,  aka  George,  seems  to  be  a  right  Snowflake  of  a  bird.  EJ  brooding  and  calling  but  few  fish  being  brought,  so  eventually  nature  took  over  &  EJ  went  off to  catch  her  own  fish  leaving  the  eggs  to  cool.  More  or  less  continual  behaviour  this  year  so  no  likelihood  now  of  osprey  chicks  at  Loch  Garten.

EJ  is  21  years  old  now  so,  sadly,  this  might  be  her  last  season  retaining  a  nest.  Very  few  reach  the  great  age  of  Lady  at  Loch  Of  The  Lowes,  some  28  years  I  believe.

Just checked the links on this thread to the nest cameras and found the 2 surviving youngsters at Rutland are well grown and ringed now.  The Welsh and Cumbria nests each appear to have 3 healthy looking youngsters also.  Nothing at Loch Garten unfortunately.

Spring  &  The  OSPREY'S  are  coming.

Not  long  'til  Brian  starts  wittering  on  about  EJ,  Wimpy  George  intruders  etc  etc 

The female osprey at Glaslyn near Porthmadog returned safely again (for the 16th successive year) on the 25th March, and her much younger 'husband' of the last couple of years, Aran, returned on the 1st April.  Let's  hope for another successful year of raising young for them both.

She has hatched forty chicks, and 36 chicks of them have fledged.  She is a grandmother to 74 chicks in various other nest sites all around the country.

We've had several over here on their way back to the nest sites.  Will be in Wales next week so will see several

Went to the Dyfi Osprey project today where we watched the male brought a fish for the female who sat on one of the roost perches and got stuck into it.  The male then returned to the river where he collected a very large branch for the nest.  

We returned to our CL via the Clewydog reservoir and watched 2 more Osprey, one flying in from the Estuary and the others at on the nest.  Great day with a total of 4 seen.  Now looking forward to seeing more at Rutland Water this coming weekend.

WHOOHOO  AT  LAST 

oops  sorry for shouting but the First Osprey of 2019 has been seen on the Loch Garten nest earlier this morning.

Some folk reckon it might be "Wimpy George" but an Osprey is an Osprey after all.

Rutland water today, female sat on 4 eggs whilst male caught 2;fish in quick succession, he offered one to the female who declined so he ate both.  Fingers crossed that all 4 eggs hatch

Called in at Dyfi. The female is sitting on 3 eggs and Monty is doing his best to keep her happy.👍 Although he did have to fend off one of his younger brood from a couple of years ago which returned and wanted some action.