Link to all blogs and updates throughout the 2022 season
Webcam page with links to LotL Visitor Centre and Wildlife Reserve FB, Twitter and Blogs >>>
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/watch-wildlife-online/loch-of-the-lowes-webcam/
For the latest 'live' YouTube link, visit >>> SWT YT Channel
The Osprey Protection Programme at Loch of the Lowes is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
All captures and videos ©Scottish Wildlife Trust/Loch of the Lowes
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2022 return dates: LM12 (Laddie) - 13th March; NC0(16) - 23rd March
Looking forward to welcoming back Laddie and NC0 to this wonderful location at Loch of the Lowes. Will Laddie, in his 12th season, beat his earliest arrival date that he achieved last year? Will NC0, her 4th season, be heard before she is seen on cam? Could we see the return of their 2021 offspring, LR1 and LR2? Here's hoping they have safe, spring migrations so as to grace our screens once again.
Nest Updates
Arrival dates: NC0 - 17.3.23 (07:43) Laddie - 17.3.23 (13:43)
Eggs laid: Egg #1 - 4.4.23 (09:32) Egg #2 - 7.4.23 (09:39) Egg #3 - 10.4.23 (09:10)
March/April Blogs and Updates (published dates)
28.2.23 SWT video >>> Prepping the Osprey Nest for the Season
17.3.23 SWT (News) blog >>> Successful reunion of breeding ospreys at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve
24.3.23 LotL blog >>> Breeding osprey return to Loch of the Lowes on the same day!
3.4.23 LotL blog >>> Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – Week 2
5.4.23 LotL blog >>> First egg of the osprey season - Week 2
7.4.23 LotL blog >>> Second Egg for Osprey Pair at Loch of the Lowes
10.4.23 LotL blog >>> Easter Egg Surprises - The Arrival of the Third Egg and an Unwanted Guest
16.4.23 LotL blog >>> Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes- Week 3
21.4.23 LotL blog >>> Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes - Weeks 4 & 5
23.4.23 LotL blog >>> Loch of the Lowes Osprey Sighted on their First Migration North
25.4.23 LotL blog >>> Let’s Eggsamine NC0’s Three-Egg Clutch
30.4.23 LotL blog >>> Osprey Diary at Loch of the Lowes – Week 6
Cam offline
I did manage to capture these pics from earlier as I had paused the LS before going to work. I didn't see any fish deliveries.
Mating
Laddie with a large stick
The cam did come on again for 43 minutes (I checked SWT's 'Live' YT channel) and scrolling through that footage, nothing of note to report.
SWT have posted a video >>> Life on the Nest
BBL
©SWT/LotL
Cam has just come back online
NEW URL
The cam went down again seven minutes after coming back on at lunchtime.
NEW URL which has been stable for the past 2hrs 50 mins.
15:45ish Laddie to an empty nest with a headless fish. He waited for a few minutes before NC0 arrived with a stick. He flew off with the meal
16:32 Laddie came back with the fish in his talons. Stayed a couple of minutes before heading off with it again - NC0 did not attempt to take the fish from him, and didn't call for it either.
At present, NC0 is alone on the nest
17:03 Laddie returned to the nest with the fish.
At last, NC0 took it and then headed off, taking the fish and some nesting material with her
18:19 Laddie was on the nest. NC0 flew off from above the cam - this startled him!
Laddie left the nest at 18:29ish. He flew over the Loch, behind the nest, and landed on a lower branch of the birch. NC0 was already there on her diving branch
NC0's reflection
Both were still there just before the night cam came on at 19:10
Link to the blog >>>
Breeding osprey return to Loch of the Lowes on the same day!
The cam went offline overnight
NEW YT URL