Wildlife Diary 14th April
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A return to normal , pre-incubation behavior for our female osprey today, who has spent plenty of time on the nest but shown no signs so far of egg laying …
Breaking News: An egg at last
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Yes folks we really, definitely and truly have an egg on our osprey nest at Loch of the Lowes. Our resident female started sitting in her deep nest cup this …
Wildlife Diary 13th April
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Hello it’s Lindsey on the dayshift doing the blog today; we’ve let Emma go home for some well earned, and much needed, sleep, as she is on nightshift again tonight. …
Peregrines still not getting any peace!
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The tiercel was on defensive duties again this morning. We had what looked to be a 2 year old female over (or as ornithologists call them a ‘second summer’). This …
Exciting News
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The moment we have all been waiting for: we beleive the first egg of the 2012 season has been laid by our resident female Osprey tonight. At around 10.20pm our …
Egg Update
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We believe that our resident female osprey laid her first egg of the year at around 10.40 last night. She showed all the classic signs of eggs laying: sitting in …
The Egg Confusion Continues
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I have to admit to personally being completely confused by the behaviour on our Loch of the Lowes osprey nest over the last 12 hours. The plot thickens as we …
Super Camouflaged Moths and Flesh Eating Beetles!
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The volunteer trainee ranger team have been discovering some of the smaller and often over looked flying creatures that frequent the reserve. Toby Green and Ross Newham have very kindly …
Wildlife Diary 11th April
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Whilst we wait for our ospreys to produce eggs on the famous Loch of the Lowes nest, the poor birds have been putting up with intruders (yesterday especially) and poor …