There is a possibility the other ospreys could be the offspring to the pair that we have here now, although it is more likely they are the offspring from previous years until up to 2007.
All the chicks that have fledged at Glaslyn have been ringed but unfortunately, staff and volunteers have not been able to see clearly whether or not these ospreys are ringed
Osprey’s don’t mature until they are two years old, this means they have no mating instinct, and don’t go out looking for nests / partners. When they are two years old they will look for places to nest and then they will look for a partner in that same area. At Glaslyn, the male normally returns to the nest before the female and starts to build up the nest in preparation for another breeding season.
The chicks are growing up fast - the eldest chick is roughly half the size of the mother now, which is about the same size as jackdaw - the other two chicks are slightly smaller but are fast catching up with their elder sibling.
The weather has been changeable over the weekend, but it s a lot cooler now than it was at the start of last week, and this will make a nice change to the chicks and their parents.
Hopefully, the birds should be ringed sometime next week, but as always this is weather dependent, but we’ll keep you updated on this via the blog.