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The bigger they are............ By Birdie Wild The Wagtails gathered on the edge of town (something real bad was gonna go down) The noise was immense, then silence fell, as Big Dave stood up and rang a bell. Placing 'is wing on 'is heart in a pledge, he vowed "We'll...

You may have read in a previous post about my sighting of an osprey here at The Lodge and the fact that Joel was away and missed out on a bird he really wanted to see for the first time ever. Well, said osprey stayed for more than a month and has become, I believe, the latest ever osprey seen in the...

Check out the latest Lodge blog for a bit more info about our late staying osprey.

'Behind the scenes' here at Birds magazine involves me having a great job and the opportunity to work on a nature reserve: The Lodge , Sandy, Bedfordshire - that famous address of the Headquarters of the RSPB. It also brings the chance to enjoy lunchtime walks surrounded by nature and the...

Ray Mears is on ITV/STV tonight, but for those who missed the Caledonian Forest/LG area/Osprey/Capercaille/etc Episode 1 from last week , which I had given up any chance of seeing, it is now available on ITV Player and STV Player as below. Ray is seen chatting with Roy last Spring at a secret nest in...

Hi all, not sure if this has been mentioned on here or not but I was just reading one of the chicks from the Dyfi migration diaries and its seems that Einion has had a bit of an adventure at sea! Thankfully after 29 hours on the wing he made it back to land not far from where he started! You can follow...

Wow, thanks everyone for your comment so far, if you are still deliberating then take your time, it's a tough ask! I've finally narrowed it down to 5 so here goes! Swift - Guaranteed to get me gazing skywards every May on the look out for the first ones back! Kestrel - Especially...

After a rather slow start, there's no stopping Tore as she storms ahead of Bynack and big sister Rothes to hit a rather exciting journey milestone. To find out more check out the latest post on the Loch Garten osprey diary .

Wow today I have seen my first osprey over the reserve. It disturbed a group of about twenty curlews and plenty of lapwings, as it came across the reserve heading inland towards Churchtown and beyond. Did anyone see it over at Martin Mere? Pink feet numbers have dramatically increased from the eight...

This time of year sees lots of migrants both leaving and arriving at Leighton Moss so why not come and join us for a Wednesday walkabout and find out about the amazing travels of our birds at this time of year. On yesterday's walk we spotted a couple of common terns divebombing into the pool in...

Just like the proverbial London bus, good birds often come along together. Earlier today, one of our volunteers reported six spoonbills flying over the reedbed towards Island Mere. Seconds later, the radios crackled into life again as Paul spotted an osprey heading in the same direction. Now, osprey...

Ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure on this showery Monday, we bring you a blurred bird courtesy of RSPB Images : Great, isn't it? What a shot! Peter Cairns has captured this osprey having a good shake, preen and clean. This seems like a fun one for captions - please brighten up...

Today's gorgeous weather has more than made up for yesterday's miserable showing and brought some good sightings today too. The black tern that was here yesterday is still around; it seems to be going backwards and forwards between the Eric Morecambe pools and the Lower and Public hides. The...

My plan to catch the otters early this morning completely backfired - having got up early and charged down to the Lower hide, the otters were seen there about 20 minutes after I had left. We had one dog otter with a kink in its tail at 8.15 am and a group of four at 8.45 am. At 10 am an osprey was...

Blimey, I don’t even believe it myself, and I was there! I’m the one who isn’t keen on reserves on the whole, and my hubby, as many of you know, is not interested in birds. Add to that our two dogs who come everywhere with us, you may understand how this is an all time record for me...

This Topic has been set up to follow the Autumn 2011 migration and wintering of satellite tracked ospreys, excluding Tore, Bynack and Rothes from Loch Garten, who are followed on this thread: The predecessor to this topic is Satellite Tracked Ospreys (non LG) March-August 2011

Sorry to interrupt folks. Sue contacted me as a result of a shot of an Osprey that I had taken last week in the Gironde Estuary. I have joined your community and posted more pictures of Rothes in my gallery. I should say hat the light was terrible and the bird was quite far away, but I think the pictures...

Graham, Thanks for updating the Tracking Page , and Google Earth, in preparation for tracking this year’s chicks, Tore and Bynack. I have a couple of queries about the update though: Watch the Film The video window in the satellite tracking page is labelled “The RSPB's Richard...

Took this picture at Eyebrook Res this year, the osprey was getting ready to dive into the res for the second time, as you see the weather was bad so sorry about the quality only had my small canon A620 with me, but I'm happy with the picture.

Suddenly I was aware that I was being scrutinised by an Osprey. Taken from a balcony in Florida.

Early evening, we were driving across the Cromarty Bridge and spotted an Osprey sitting on the railing, not 6ft from the car. We slowed down to watch him, drove up and down a few times and Loran managed to snap him with her camera phone. Awesome!!!

After several days and many shots I managed to get this one of an osprey flying over the caravan site we were on for a week in Aberdeenshire. It felt good to get a decent photo as I thought I had missed the opportunity yet again.

After several days and many shots I managed to get this one of an osprey flying over the caravan site we were on for a week in Aberdeenshire. It felt good to get a decent photo as I thought I had missed the opportunity yet again.

In 2005 I volunteered for Operation Osprey. My first morning at the hide, I saw the female osprey circling the nest tree lower, and lower... Suddenly she dived... A moment later a red deer ran out from the bracken, evicted by a susicious bird!

In 2005 I volunteered for Operation Osprey. My first morning at the hide, I saw the female osprey circling the nest tree lower, and lower... Suddenly she dived... A moment later a red deer ran out from the bracken, evicted by a susicious bird!

This year my wife and I were enjoying the evening sunshine and were lucky enough to see a juvenile Osprey make it's first flight from a nest near to our house. Words are insufficient to thank the RSPB for all you have done in protecting these birds.

Our first sighting of an osprey was at Loch Ruthven. It circled the lake a couple of times, hovered briefly then plunged feet first into the water.We held our breath. Had it caught a fish? Time seemed to stand still. Unlucky this time, off he went