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Rothes was inside the first egg to be laid in 2009, on 16 April. She hatched on 22 May. Her parents are White EJ and 'Odin' . When she was ringed, she weighed 1.646 kg and had a wing length of 376 mm. Rothes' colour-ring is white with a black 'PJ'. Rothes surprised everyone...

Mallachie was inside the second egg to be laid in 2009, on 19 April. She hatched on 24 May. Her parents are White EJ and 'Odin' . When she was ringed, she weighed 1.79 kg and had a wing length of 342 mm. Mallachie's colour-ring is white with a black 'PM'. Mallachie was the last...

Garten was inside the third and last egg to be laid in 2009, on 22 April. She hatched on 26 May. Her parents are White EJ and 'Odin' . When she was ringed, she weighed 1.7 kg and had a wing length of 325 mm. Garten doesn't have a satellite tag but she does have a colour-ring - white...

Bynack, a male, hatched on 24 May. His parents are White EJ and ' Odin '. At the time of ringing, his wing length was 325 mm and tail 125 mm. His colour ring is blue with a white 47. He took his first flight on 16 July. You can follow Bynack's migration on our osprey tracking page...

Tore, a female, was inside the first egg to be laid in 2011, on 14 April. She hatched on 19 May. Her parents are White EJ and ' Odin '. At the time of ringing, her wing length was 335 mm and tail 140 mm. Female ospreys are bigger than males, even at a young age. Her colour ring is blue with...

We don't really know anything about 'Odin', the male who first turned up on 3 April 2009. He hasn't been ringed so we don't know his background. He could have hatched in Scotland and has returned to breed, or he could have hatched somewhere in Scandinavia but has settled in Scotland...

Deshar was the second chick to hatch in 2008, on 26 May. His parents were White EJ and Orange VS . Deshar was fitted with a satellite tag and a white plastic ring marked 'AZ'. His name came from Deshar Primary School, not far from Loch Garten. When he was ringed on 5 July, he weighed 1.43...

Nethy was the first chick to hatch in 2008, on 24 May. Her parents were White EJ and Orange VS . She was fitted with a satellite tag and a white plastic ring marked 'AY'. Her name comes from Abernethy Primary School, not far from Loch Garten. When she was ringed on 5 July, she weighed 1.628...

The male osprey that had a plastic ring inscribed 'HV' (nicknamed 'Henry') was ringed as a chick in a nest on the Black Isle, just north of Inverness, on 9 July 1998. Henry had distinctive orange eyes. Young ospreys have orange eyes, but they usually turn yellow as they get older....

The male osprey ringed with an orange plastic ring inscribed 'VS' was caught at Rothiemurchus fish farm on 16 August 1994, when he was two years old. Orange VS paired with White EJ in 2008, but he didn't appear in 2009. Orange VS' offspring at Loch Garten Nethy Deshar ...

The female osprey with the white plastic ring inscribed 'EJ' was hatched at a nest in north-east Perthshire in 1997. Female ospreys have a brown 'bib' which males don't. EJ's forehead also has more brown than those of male birds. 2008 Arrived: 26 March Paired with...