Some exciting news yesterday evening. After around 7 pm, we had confirmed sightings of a male osprey at the Glaslyn osprey nest at Pont Croesor near Porthmadog. A pair of birds have nested here in north Wales since 2004, so we were expecting - hoping! - that they would return.
It's a bit unclear at this stage whether this is the regular male. It certainly looks like him, but the orange ring on his right leg is missing. Could it have come off in the last six months? Or is this a new male osprey looking to settle in and find a mate? We will have to do a bit more investigating before we can know for sure...