Llyn Clywedog is a reservoir situated near the B4518 road north of Llanidloes, Powys, Mid Wales. The reservoir is owned and operated by Severn Trent Water, with oversight and regulation by Natural Resources Wales. A sailing club and a very active trout fishery operate on the reservoir. The fishery stock the lake with tens of thousands of trout every year.
In 2005 Natural Resources Wales erected an osprey platform; this was eventually occupied in 2014, and has been used every season since then.
In 2022 the unringed osprey known as Dylan returned to the nest for his seventh season as the resident male. Since 2020 the resident female has been Blue 5F(12) (known as Seren - Welsh for Star). She hatched in Rutland in 2012. Previously she had for several years been unsuccessful in attracting the sole attention of a male to a nest at Pont Croesor. The previous unringed female (Delyth) did not return in 2020, and Seren 5F replaced her. In 2020 Dylan and 5F Seren fledged 3 male young, in 2021 (a cold and wet season) only one male fledged, and in 2022 one female and 2 males. 5F Seren has regularly been seen in Africa in winter for many years - she was last reported as seen in the Gambia on 1 February 2023.
In 2022 5F Seren returned to the nest on 26 March; Dylan arrived on 5 April, which is later than he arrived in previous years.
There is no visitor centre or facilities. The nest can be observed from a temporary hide in a layby off the minor road. There is a footpath close to the nest which is closed and blocked off during the nesting season.
The nest is looked after by the area NRW ranger John Williams; he has a blog on this link. There is a more comprehensive history of the site in his blog. John goes well beyond the call of duty to support the ospreys and ensure that the cameras are running etc.
There is an active Facebook group for the nest on this link. The group tries to record all fish deliveries which are collated for analysis.
There are 2 streaming cameras provided by Carnyx Wild. The links for the live stream change every 12 hours, the latest can be seen on the playlist links below.
Camera 1 is a close-up of the nest. - playlist on this link
Camera 2 gives a wider view with two perches - playlist on this link This camera is not being transmitted at the moment due to condensation obscuring the view.
Let's hope she finds either KC1 or KA5 (Roli) while she's around in the vicinity, AG.
Unknown said:Visitor identified on chat as KC1, 2019 male from ON4. Also visited today KA5 (Roli) 2019 Llyn Brenig around 16.55.
My video above showed KA5's visit - I shan't have time to find KC1 without a clue, I'd have to do it very slowly.
Unknown said:Dylan delivered a perch for tea at 18.01
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26 April
IMAGICAT
I've been gettng an awful lot of buffering this afternoon - every time this cam is refreshed it has to be manually clicked to show the live stream, so it isn't manageable when I'm not here - which I'm not going to be for a while.
I hope it's OK that I've made a bit of an event of that, AG:
28 April
Intruder - not sure if we've had a glimpse of it yet.
We're in a long buffering phase.
Besides which, for the first time since the last Windows Update fixed the problem caused by the previous Windows Update (arghhh!) my internal network has cut off the Clywedog laptop,, so I can't access the intruder episode yet. What would fix it is rebooting this laptop wot I'm working on, and it takes so long to shut down and reset-up everything that I'm not going to do it until I absolutely have to
That emoji should really be my default :(((