Tuesday 20 August 2019

Osprey - Whitesprings Plantation

It's been a poor autumn for sightings of Osprey locally, both Ken and I have had just single sightings at Chatsworth and over Harland Edge last weekend but there have been birds present regularly at Ogston and Carr Vale with a few sightings at Carsington.
This morning a bird flew up from the Darley Dale direction to Whitesprings carrying a fish which it was doubtless planning to eat somewhere in the woodland. It was an adult and could be the same bird I saw doing the same thing last year in the same area. 
Whilst the likelihood of birds nesting locally is less than for the Red Kite it certainly wouldn't beyond the realms of possibility to see a pair nesting locally in the next few years which would be quite something.
Osprey over Whitesprings Plantation

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