Sad news about our third chick
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Despite making an impressive entrance on Saturday, our third osprey chick unfortunately died in the nest early this morning. The season’s youngest bird had a difficult time of it. It …
The third chick has hatched at Loch of the Lowes
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The third and final chick joins life in the nest cup! Though not so far behind its siblings, it’s still long enough to already be seeing a huge difference in …
The second chick has hatched at Loch of the Lowes
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This one kept us waiting a little longer than the first! It was just after midnight on Wednesday morning when we noticed the first crack on our second egg, and …
The first chick has hatched at Loch of the Lowes
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We’ve had some breaking news here at Loch of the Lowes! Yesterday at around 1pm we noticed NC0 becoming increasingly agitated. She was regularly getting up and fussing with the …
An Eggstraordinary Journey
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It’s been over 3 weeks now since NC0 laid her 3rd egg, and with the first chick due to hatch in just over a week, we thought we’d look a little closer …
Tough Times at the Osprey Nest
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It’s been a tough time on the nest for the last 24 hours for our resident pair of ospreys NC0 and LM12. In the last few days an unringed osprey …
Intruding ospreys
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Over the last couple of weeks at Loch of the Lowes there have been a lot of what we like to call “intruding ospreys”. As seen in the video below, …
How do you tell the difference between LM12 and NC0?
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We’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about how we recognise our resident ospreys so here is a quick guide that will hopefully help you tell the difference between …
Loch of the Lowes ospreys – calm before the storm!
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On yet another windy afternoon, we were enjoying watching LM12 and NC0 spending time on the nest together. Over the last few days, our ospreys have spent a bit of …
The ospreys are back at Loch of the Lowes but when can you visit?
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We’re very excited to have our first osprey sighting of the year! Hopefully NC0 won’t be far behind LM12 and we’ll get this season started. Sadly, even though we have …