The UK’s oldest breeding female osprey, which returned for the 21st consecutive year to the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s (SWT) Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve In March, has laid her second egg on Saturday 16th April 2011.

This recent development brings the total of eggs laid by this amazing osprey, over 21 years, to 60, should these eggs hatch successfully, this would then bring the total of chicks hatched to 50.

Staff remain hopefully that these eggs prove to be fertile and that the chicks will hatch out in mid May.

For more information you can follow our osprey blog at: http://blogs.swt.org.uk/osprey/