The eyasses are growing quickly
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The two eyasses are growing incredibly quickly. They have probably quadrupled their size since they hatched on the 30th April and 1st May. They have started to get a grey …
Wildlife Blog 12th May 2011
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Events from the nest today: This morning, a fish was delivered to the nest at 4.41am by our male. As usual, our female osprey took the fish and flew off …
Wildlife Blog 11th May 2011
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Events from the nest today: Today we have seen some osprey drama here at Loch of the Lowes. At 12.05pm, our male osprey, 7Y, returned to the nest with a …
Nature Notes
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Apparently, it was the driest April on record, certainly for over one hundred years and we were beginning to see the effects of the draught in many areas of Scotland. …
Wildlife Blog 10th May 2011
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Events from the nest today: On the nest today, we have seen incubation duties continuing through the rain showers. After the blog was posted yesterday, our male impressively delivered two …
Web camera problems
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We are currently experiencing some problems with our web camera. We are trying to resolve this as quickly as we can. Thank you for your patience.
Wildlife Blog 9th May 2011
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Events from the nest: The resident male osprey has been bringing a large number of sticks to the nest this morning, continuing the nest building and maintenance that will go …
Species profile – Brown hare (Lepus europaeus)
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Montrose Basin is truly an extra special place for wildlife. You only have to look at the designations the site has to realise this. It is a Site of Special …
The tiercel feeds the falcon and eyasses (chicks)
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Quite an unusual event thus far happened at the peregrine site today. The tiercel for the first time fed the falcon and eyasses. He arrived at the plucking post with …
Third egg still not hatched
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We are waiting with anticipation at the peregrine site for the last egg to hatch. It has been a week now since the last egg hatched in the early hours …