Wow! Who forgot to tell the weather powers that be that it was a public holiday this weekend? What a scorcher, unlike the wet, cold, miserable conditions that we normally suffer on such occasions. Samson returned to us on 11th but spent the first few days rarely visiting the nest or the immediate area so…… Continue Reading
Welcome to the 2019 osprey season. This is just a very short note to remind you that we are expecting our birds back at any time and, if you are in the area, to keep your eyes to the sky. For the previous 3 years, Samson has returned on 2nd, 9th and 7th April so…… Continue Reading
This will probably be my last blog of the year as I expect both Samson and Freya to depart shortly. They continue to frustrate attempts to work out any sort of routine for their movements and they appear and disappear from the nest area with gay abandon and no thought at all for us watchers.…
This is just a quick update to say that Samson and Freya are still with us but are often spending much of the day out of immediate sight so there’s little to report……except that Freya went visiting the neighbours on 5 Jul and intruded on an osprey nest full of chicks at Kielder, much to…
(My apologies for the quality of the photos which were taken in extremely challenging conditions of intense sunlight, often straight towards the cameras, and heat haze. My thanks to Brian Clark for the first photo of Freya and the two of Samson bringing back nesting material, and to Kate Sumner Wilson for the two of…
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