Outersight (UK) Ltd

26/04/2025

Interesting times at one of Osprey sites.

The saga of polygamy at nest 2 continues with fascinating behaviour.
There are now 4 eggs laid, both females alternate the incubation with Mrs O doing more of the share.
3 eggs laid - 18th, 21st and 24th are Mrs O's.
The fourth egg was also laid on 24th April by the second female.
Both females seem amicable and tolerant. Male is providing small fish. Interesting to see Mrs O took the fish and ate at the nest with the male and female2 present.

14/04/2025

Great to see initiatives like this from Millfields Trust are helping the local community in the vicinity of Union Street where we are based.

14/04/2025

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10 years ago on Skomer island playing with the puffins. Amazingly I still have the miniature socket set today. Purchased from Costco when I used to be a regular visitor ( and very much poorer for it). The camera is a Bosch MIC 400 from memory. Nice little units but it was a shame that to make them a success it took a multinational like Bosch to buy up Forward Vision a small innovative UK engineering company.

06/03/2025

Back from a week of installing nest cameras and have to have all this and more with me to do my work. There is a saying that goes " better looking at it than for it" and that really rings true when you are working on a remote site and the valiant arborists is at the top of a tree or pole in sub zero windchill and you need to replace a connector or cable that has been damaged by winter storms or inquisitive Squirrels. We have worked in remote forests and islands for over 25 years now and have fine tuned our load out and kit list to cover most eventualities. The true essential is the Goretex onesie though, keeps me warm and dry and tick free.

04/03/2025

Lovely day out on the hills yesterday.

26/02/2025

Cold and wet in Kielder Forest earlier today putting a camera on a new Osprey Nest pole. 3 in total done today with another 3 tomorrow. The weather is looking slightly better tomorrow though. Going to take a while to dry all my gear though

21/02/2025

Great to hear the Gannets are back at the Bass Rock. It always felt such a privilege to be able to work out there. Keep up the good work Scottish Seabird Centre

17/02/2025

A few days recently in Kielder Forest upgrading some of the Osprey Nest camera systems for Forestry England . Freezing cold up there high above Kielder Water. This upgrade will allow 24 hour operation of the cameras and recording equipment as well as offering a remote link for monitoring.

17/02/2025

A few days at Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre and Druridge Bay Nature Reserves expanding on the work we did there last year. There are now 4 nest box cameras, a pond camera, 2 red squirrel cameras, a bird feeder camera and a PTZ camera overlooking the scrape. We even installed a new screen in the cafe so you can see what is going on whilst drinking coffee and eating some, baked on site, scones.

Hopefully we will get a live stream running later in the year.

This place is great for walks and is hidden away near Amble in the North East of England.

18/01/2025

Susan has done a great job and we wish her well with her retirement ( its not like she will really be retiring ).

11/12/2024

Great news for a local project.

Some great news for everyone that has supported our project to date, we’ve secured a grant from Devon Environment Foundation to provide more nests to help encourage natural recolonisation of Ospreys in Devon.

22/11/2024

Glad to help lighting up our HQ

06/11/2024

Fantastic time of the year to be out on the Isle of May to witness the invasion of the pregnant Grey Seals. Fairly kind weather as well. We have not had the need to go out there this year and kind of miss it.

04/11/2024

Not one of our installation sites but if you are in the area and can drink wine to support this Osprey Project then please do go and buy a ticket.

A fun event raising funds to build Osprey Nests on the River Erme. Let's come together to get nesting pairs of these beautiful birds back!

23/09/2024

Great place to live and work and a great team to lead.

Join our team.
We’re looking for a creative leader to shape our future as our next CEO.
Help us to grow our partnerships, projects, visitor attraction and impact - enabling us to do more for Scotland’s exceptional marine wildlife & habitats.

📅Closing date 26/09
Full role profile is below⬇️
https://ow.ly/4O9q50TqZ7W

27/08/2024

Very good news

23/08/2024

Having had significant involvement in the formative years of the Scottish Seabird Centre we wish them luck in the search for a new CEO. It is a fantastic place.

After 6 successful years leading our Charity, our CEO – Susan Davies FRSB - is moving on. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for inspiring people to act for Scotland’s seas to shape the future of our Charity.

Our Chair, Stuart Housden said, “We are very grateful for the leadership that Susan has provided to the Scottish Seabird Centre on its path to playing a more prominent role in marine nature conservation in Scotland and to promoting our visitor attraction and activities to educate and inspire more people to act for Scotland’s seas and amazing wildlife found there. Despite this having been a challenging period, not least with the pandemic and rising business costs, we have established much stronger links with our local and science communities and continue to increase our reach and impact through new partnerships.

With a new 5-year strategy and business plan to develop in the coming year this is a great opportunity for someone to build on the progress made as we enter the next 25 years in our Charity’s journey”.

Find out more about this exciting opportunity↙️
https://www.seabird.org/vacancies/scottish-seabird-centre-begins-search-for-new-chief-executive-officer

18/08/2024

Found this bit of comparison video quite interesting. I believe Gulls are more accurate if they recognise ice cream or chips whereas Corvids recognise that a biscuit must be recovered in one piece before being dunked in your tea.

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