New female osprey at Loch of the Lowes
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A new female osprey has joined the resident male LM12 on the nest at the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve in Perthshire. Trust staff got their …
Osprey LM12 arrives back at Loch of the Lowes
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The Trust is delighted to confirm that male osprey LM12 has arrived back at Loch of the Lowes reserve near Dunkeld. LM12 touched down on the nest at 15:33 pm …
Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – So Long and Fly High
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It has without doubt been a strange season with many twists and turns, from the very early arrival of our breeding pair female NC0 and male LM12 on the 17th …
Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – Weeks 19 & 20
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The last few weeks continue to be a challenging and testing time for the osprey family at Loch of the Lowes. When we last wrote NC0 (the resident breeding female) …
Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – Week 7
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The egg-hatch waiting game continues but the action hasn’t stopped for our incubating resident pair. In the past week we’ve seen an intruding osprey that had us questioning whether we’d …
Let’s Eggsamine NC0’s Three-Egg Clutch
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Our resident female osprey NC0 has been sitting tightly on her nest after laying the third and final egg on Easter Monday. With her occasional re-shuffle or incubation change with …
Easter Egg Surprises- The Arrival of the Third Egg and an Unwanted Guest
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It was another beautiful morning on the Loch for the arrival of egg number three. Right on cue, almost 72 hours since her previous egg NC0 began to show the …
Breeding Osprey Return to Loch of the Lowes on the Same Day!
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It’s been nearly a week since we welcomed the return of our breeding osprey back to the reserve for another exciting season! The staff were surprised to observe female osprey …
NC0 lays her first egg of 2022!
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NC0 laid her first egg of the season at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve at 18:34 this evening. Her first egg comes 20 days after arriving on the reserve …
The countdown has begun…
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It’s that time of year again as we’re searching the skies for that familiar wing shape and distinctive call as our male and female osprey return from migration. Who will …