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Hello everyone, Do you love the scream of swifts on warm summer evenings? I find there is nothing that evokes relaxed summer evenings with a cold G&T better, than the sound of their calls over the town. But swifts are in trouble. Fewer are returning to their nest sites and these secret places...

2 Ospreys were seen yesterday near the nest. One sitting on the nest, the other on the ground nearby. There was no interaction seen between them, so obviously not a pair yet..... Could it be the young male from last year? Or perhaps a bird from another pair in the area? Pop down to Wigtown Bay Visitor...

Great news everyone! Today the town bells in Wigtown rang to welcome back our male (leg ring white EP) to the nest. We'd had reports of an osprey since Sunday, but with the camera not working we could not see what was going on. Camera is fully functional again as of 4pm yesterday and straight away...

After 3 days of no electricity, I was MIGHTY glad when the lights popped back on last night. We even had our first barbeque of the year!! Wasn't the warmest but at least the sun was shining. The wind is still bitterly cold here but that hasn't detered some hardy ospreys returning to the UK. Reports...

It's with baited breath that I go into the Visitor Centre these days. Any day now an osprey could appear on the nest. Already there has been an osprey sighted at Annan. Could this be the Caerlaverock birds returning? We will just have to wait and see. 3 other opsreys have been seen further south...

After the excitment of last Tuesday, we have not seen any sign of HJ or indeed EP visiting the nest. The local ravens have been regularly hanging about the nest, and have taken to removing all the twigs that were brought in by the ospreys last week. We'll just have to keep our fingers crossed for...

Turns out blue HJ is a very young male bird. He was ringed at Caerlaverock in 2010 as a chick, so he is only 2 years old. Most ospreys don't return to the UK until they are 3 years old, but they have been known to return early to look for mates and suitable nest sites. So HJ is clearly hoping to...

EP our male from previous years, that has been hanging about in the area has just turned up on the nest. HJ didn't seem upset by this, so maybe he's a she?? A raven is flying around too. All go today!!

SUPER EXCITING NEWS!!! This morning we have an Osprey sitting on the nest!!! Blue HJ is the leg ring and it may be a male as there a few fresh twigs on top of the nest. He's a beautiful bird sitting having a good preen on the branches above the nest. Here's hoping he likes the look of the...

Well only three days to go for the latest return of the Wigtown Ospreys, time is getting on and we have only had site of single birds on the Bay and none on the nest. The ones we have seen might be birds moving through to other sites and just stopping for a feed or only one has returned there is another...

We are pleased to say that Wigtown has secured a place for one of 6 showings of “Born to Fly” – a cranes story in Dumfries and Galloway and a film on osprey We will be showing the film at Wigtown County Buildings on the 6 th March. Personally I am very pleased that we have been...

A while ago, a visitor caught me out with a question about ospreys.”When do ospreys find the time to moult?” I was caught off guard; I new that most birds moult in the late summer/early autumn after the nesting period is over, but with ospreys they have to migrate then. I tried leafing...

Today is the RSPB National Feed the Birds Day, but tomorrow, Sunday 30th October I will be making free bird feeders with visiotrs in the Wigtown County Buildings. The Visitor Centre and Osprey Room will also be open and staffed by my fantastic volunteers, so come along and join the fun.

It seems rather late in the season, but I have just received a report of an osprey seen flying northwards from Garlieston over Wigtown Bay at mid-day on Tuesday 4 th October, unfortunately it was unidentifiable whilst in flight. Could this be one of our birds still around the area, or are we still...

This was a question posed by Original Goldfinch in another discussion, but I figured it deserved it's own one! I haven't had, or heard any exciting goose or swan reports yet, apart from Billc (one of the Wigtown Bay Osprey volunteers) who saw an A ustralian Black Swan last Tuesday (13th) from...

The Wigtown Bay Ospreys seem to have definitely gone, I have received no more sightings of Ospreys over Wigtown Bay since the 1st of September . Just as well with the weather we are currently experiencing, lets hope they were safely to the South before it arrived! Apparently there are still this year's...

It seems that the Wigtown Bay Ospreys have gone, they were last seen at the nest on Thursday 24th August, and we haven't had any recent sightings of ospreys over Wigtown Bay since Paul Tarling saw one on Thursday 1st September. There are still ospreys been sighted in Dumfries and Galloway, I saw...

There have been no sightings of the Wigtown Bay Ospreys since Thursday, 24th August when H/D and JD were seen on CCTV camera at the nest site, so we are beginning to wonder if they have all migrated? A visitor reported seeing an osprey flying near Wigtown on Monday 29th August, which was presumably...

I was pleased to see that both JD our Wigtown Bay 2011 chick and H/D his mum were still around yesterday, and hadn't migrated yet. I assume EP our adult male is still here somewhere too. They had all been rather elusive recently, but when I came into the Wigtown Bay Visitor Centre at 3.30pm, JD was...

This year's Loch Garten osprey chicks have just started their migration to Africa, with one embarking on a celebration zig-zag-tour of Britain and flypast of our reserves. Every year the chicks are fitted with satellite tags so we can follow their migration. Tore Last Wednesday morning (17...

Wow, I’m getting good at this whole website editing stuff, second video clip of 2011 Wigtown Bay Ospreys posted on Wigtown Bay Ospreys website.

Horray! I have created a temporary fix for the Wigotwn Bay Oprey Website! I have finally managed to upload a clip onto youtube and link it to the Wigtown Bay Ospreys website! I know all you techies will be wondering what took me so long, but for me this is real progress, I still don't really...

Does anyone know who Cirrus65000 is on youtube, and Cirrus on the RSPB Loch Garten blog is? I need to contact them to ask how they put clips onto youtube. I have very high resolution CCTV footage from the Wigtown Osprey Project (i.e. a few minutes is 1GB) and I need to reduce the quality to post...

It's getting to that time of year again, when less and less is seen of our ospreys, EP, H/D and this years chick JD. Still no reports of our missing chick, JC either, I think she must now be presumed dead. I had a brief glimpse of JD in the nest today with a fish, unfortunately it was just...

I had a very enjoyable visit to both the Glaslyn and Dyfi Osprey Projects in Wales, great to hear that all three chicks at each project are going strong. Still no news of JC so I think we have to assume that she is probably dead. JD is still doing well, he can be seen feeding at the nest site daily...