Osprey - Darley Dale

 Another call from Alan Stewardson, this time regarding an Osprey he had found perched in a tree by the river in Darley Dale. 

I managed brief views of it as it flew up river but as I walked towards Rowsley in past me carrying a large Brown Trout. Fortunately it landed close-by and was easily visible on the branches of a dead tree. After spending some time adjusting its position, and that of the trout, it set about eating it.

Impossible to say what it's doing here at this time of the year. It could be a bird that has failed to breed elsewhere but is one of an increasing number of birds that are present in the midlands during the summer months.

Osprey