Today, the last white tailed eagles to be released as part of the east Scotland reintroduction took to the skies!
The sunny weather and light windy conditions were perfect for the young birds to take their first flight, and they all did incredibly well. Anyone would think they’d done it before!
The last release today was covered by BBC and STV after Tuesday’s planned release was cancelled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms! It was featured on STV’s news at 6pm and BBC reporting Scotland at 6:30pm this evening.
The fledglings are not alone in the woods at the moment. Yesterday, Red E from the 2011 release cohort returned to the release wood and was seen perched with Grey A that was released on Monday. Hopefully Red E will show the new arrivals a thing or two!
This great picture of "Gray T"was taken by Mike McDonnell of Argaty Red Kites (www.argatyredkites.co.uk)
What a great moment for all the team, well done everyone! It's been really interesting reading about the reintroduction process over the last few years - here's to the next phase, and hopefully many successful east coastie chicks in the future :-) Nice to hear RedE has visited them. I wonder if any of the others will pop along? Will never forget seeing TurquoiseZ when we went radio tracking, a nice surprise!
~ Karen ~Pet & Widlife Artist living in southern Perthshire. A self confessed White-Tailed Eagle-holic!