Caerlaverock news
No sign of egg number two yet
It looks hot on the osprey nest today as the birds bask in the spring sunshine. AW has flown in to take his turn on the nest 3 times today, once with a fish for his mate. We have also seen a mating attempt on the nest this morning, a precarious operation
21 April 2011
First egg laid this morning
As the CCTV system came on at the centre this morning the female was sitting tight on the nest. Was she on the first egg? Emma watched patiently and at 10.20am she saw the female stand up and sure enough there was the first egg of the season in the cup of
19 April 2011
Yet more sticks and more mating
Over the weekend we have seen both ospreys bringing in more sticks to the nest. AW as ever is a bit optimistic in thinking he can find the final resting place for his sticks on the nest. His mate rearranges his endeavours as sooon as he leaves. There have
18 April 2011
Expecting eggs
We are all eagerly expecting eggs to be laid by our osprey pair in the next few days. There has certainly been plenty of matings and lots of nest additions and 'cup scraping' which are all good signs of the birds being well bonded to the nest site and bei
16 April 2011
More DIY and mating on the nest
As we return to chilly wet wether it is all go at the nest with more sticks arriving and the bit of black plastic has moved to the edge of the nest and is flapping about in the wind. Hopefully it will blow away soon. AW has been busy bringing some good si
13 April 2011
Nest building and more black plastic
Both ospreys have been bringing in sticks to re profile the nest and as usual have brought in some blck plastic. As in previous years this discarded silage wrap gets woven into the nest and can flap about in the wind. We are always concerned that it may g
11 April 2011
AW back on the block with a flounder
At 11.05 this morning AW flew onto the nest with a large flounder. Those pesky crows landed on the nest behind him but he soon saw them off and proceeded to eat his catch. There are a lot of new sticks on the nest today so they have been busy. The female
8 April 2011
New male at the nest
At 12 noon today we saw both the male and female on the nest at the same time. The male is not green AW, he has a white ring on his left leg which we can't read yet due to the poor weather and visibility. They both seemed happy side by side on the nest an
5 April 2011
Pair of ospreys back at Caerlaverock
Great news! A pair of ospreys back at Caerlaverock. This morning we could see the female osprey on the nest when we got the live CCTV images beamed through to the centre. Then at 10.30am she flew off and a male osprey landed on the nest briefly before fly
5 April 2011
Still no sign
Since the sightings of our female on the nest on Friday afternoon, we have not seen this bird return. Our ground team did see our female sat in a tree close by but she has not returned to the nest. Similar news with the other individual which was seen on
3 April 2011
Arrival news
Osprey Arrival Great news this afternoon at Caerlaverock with our first confirmed sighting of an Osprey on the live nest camera for the 2011 breeding season. Whilst we have had reports of a couple of sightings around the nest site over the last couple of
1 April 2011
She's back!!
Great news coming from the CCTV cameras in the visitor center. Today at 1420 an unringed female Osprey landing smack in the middle of the egg cup. After looking at the facial patterns we are quite confident that this is our female. Whilst watching the fem
1 April 2011
Osprey seen at the nest yesterday
Yesterday afternoon, Monday the 28th of March our surveillance team saw an osprey flying near the nest. later that evening there was no sign of the bird and this morning the fog was too thick to see anything. Our CCTV system is now up and running beaming
29 March 2011
Track Caerlaverock's barnacle geese north
It has been a busy winter season at WWT Caerlaverock Wetland Centre for both birds and visitors.After the big thaw, the heavy rains flooded the fields making ideal conditions for lapwings with over 600 counted with 172 curlews. On the high tides numbers o
24 March 2011
Welcome to the 2011 osprey diary
The sun is shining on the Caerlaverock merses and the birds are singing so it is time to watch the skies for the return of our ospreys. A quick scan of the driftwood perches on the merse this morning turned up a peregrine falcon but no sign yet of an osp
14 March 2011