The female Osprey returned to her nest near Pont Croesor, Porthmadog for the ninth year running on Tuesday, where she met her partner of 9 years who’d arrived two days earlier.
The ospreys spend every winter in West Africa and travel thousands of miles to return to Glaslyn every year to breed and raise their chicks. Last year they broke the record for the earliest date ever for Ospreys to lay and hatch a chick in the UK, and this year the female has arrived on exactly the same date! Who knows, they may go on to break those records again this year!
You can follow the Ospreys’ progress from the visitor viewing site. It’s free of charge and open from 10am-4pm this week and from 10am-6pm from next week until the end of August. Telescopes and a live video link to the nest are already in place, so click here for flap-by-flap footage of the osprey family online.