22/07/2024
Lovely to see the young Ospreys taking their first flight. This nest has been one of the high spots in what has been a poor year for successful nests. The atrocious summer weather has seen chicks blown off their nest and even whole nests destroyed by the high winds. Heavy rain has made fishing trips less successful and colder than usual temperatures have impacted survivability.
This nest is one of the more complex to provide a live stream from as it is an Osprey built nest rather than man made and is a bit higher up than normal. We need to use 3 separate radio links as well as 500 metres of ethernet cable and 300 metres of fibre optic. There are 3 separate solar power installations all in remote locations. All this equipment is installed in late February when the weather is usually very cold and wintery.
We work with a fantastic team of foresters and ecologists at Forestry and Land Scotland.