Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Kielder Osprey Watch project has received a welcome financial boost, thanks to a donation from the organisers of a much-loved local music festival.

Seventeen years after ospreys returned to breed in Northumberland for the first time in two centuries, the 150th chick has successfully fledged from a nest at Kielder Forest.

As wildlife lovers in the region have their eyes to the skies eagerly awaiting the return of the Kielder osprey, plans are already in place to ensure Osprey Watch wings its way back.

Endangered osprey chicks hatching in Northumberland's Kielder Forest can now be viewed online by the public as part of a major conservation fundraising drive.

As wildlife lovers in the region have their eyes to the skies eagerly awaiting the return of the Kielder osprey, plans are already in place to ensure Osprey Watch wings its way back.

Northumberland Wildlife Trust is celebrating fifteen years of osprey fascination at Kielder with the launch of a young people’s art competition.

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!

Good news. All Kielder’s rare osprey chicks are now airborne.

Forestry England tree climbers joined experts to ring rare osprey chicks in Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland.

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.