The ospreys are back!
It never really quite feels like spring is really here to me until I start thinking seriously about ospreys, and the coming months. The returning ospreys signal the start of one of our most…
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Kielder Ospreys
For many years ospreys were seen passing through Kielder without stopping, always on the way north to more long-standing nesting sites in Scotland. As more and more of the best nesting spots were taken, it was just a matter of time before they stayed south of the border. To encourage this, Forestry England installed a number of platforms around the forest after a failed attempt to nest by two young birds in 2008. This paid off, as following an absence of about 200 years in Northumberland, ospreys returned to nest at Kielder in 2009.
Osprey Watch back for the 16th year
As wildlife lovers in the region have their eyes to the skies eagerly awaiting the return of the Kielder osprey, Osprey Watch is also winging its way back!
‘Heir-borne’ ospreys!
For the first time in at least 200 years chicks have been born to osprey fathers who themselves fledged in Northumberland.
Eyes to the skies for the return of the ospreys
It’s eyes to the skies time again in Northumberland as wildlife lovers prepare for the return of the Kielder ospreys.
Eleven ospreys for eleventh year
The eleventh year since ospreys returned to Northumberland has seen yet another record broken.
Ospreys return to Kielder Water and Forest Park
Ospreys have returned to nest in the forests of Kielder Water & Forest Park for the twelfth year in a row. And whilst it is just another season for the ospreys it is a year unlike any other…
Kielder ospreys get their own YouTube channel
For the first time since breeding ospreys returned to Northumberland in 2009 wildlife fans can now watch live video on the birds’ progress on YouTube.
Resurgent ospreys notch up a century in Kielder
The one hundredth osprey chick has successfully taken to the air in Kielder Water & Forest Park!
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Osprey
A great way to get up close and personal with the magnificent osprey is via one of the many nestcams set-up in the places that it breeds: Scotland, Cumbria, Wales and the East Midlands.
Trio of ospreys ringed in Kielder Water & Forest Park
Forestry England tree climbers joined experts to ring rare osprey chicks in Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland.