There will be a catch up blog this evening.... but until then. Let me know when you think Nethy will take her first flight. To give you a few clues. In the 50 years of the Loch Garten nest the average fledging time (for the first born chick) is 52 days...

Bad News..... Cameras will be going down again Wednesday morning (8am ish). Nothing to do with the birds this time; we have an electrician coming in to do some work and the power needs to go down. SORRY Good News.... the tracking page is up and running...

The nest has been a little less hectic this week, the amount of intruding birds has died down and the fish have been coming in at a regular (but not frequent) rate. Both EJ and OVS have been supplying food for our two chicks, the lion's share being...

The eldest of our chick is, we believe, a female, the other, a male. They have been given leg rings and names. The female has a white leg ring with the letters AY and the male a white leg ring with the letters AZ. They take their names from the two local...

We are ringing the chicks this morning and will take the opportunity of an empty nest to turn the cameras off and give them a good clean. You will not be missing anything as the ringing takes place on the ground. When the chicks reappear on the nest you...