Alyth is located in Perth and Kinross on the east coast of Scotland. The Osprey nest is at the Alyth SSEN Transmission sub station and is the tallest of all the nests on camera in the UK.
Background information:-
The Ospreys have nested at the site for many years since around 1990.
They were nesting on a nearby electricity tower, but due to a planned expansion of the site a decision was taken to resite the old nest to a specially constructed 25-metre nesting tower and two nearby 8.5 metre resting perches, which were erected in 2014. Advice was sought from Roy Dennis.Since that first breeding season in 2014, a total of 17 osprey chicks have been observed to have fledged from the new site.
Due to the height of the tower, no ringing can take place.
The resident ospreys are called Harry and Flora (blue HK0), named by a local school in Alyth. All pupils were also given their own osprey soft toy as a thank you from the teams for getting involved and for showing such enthusiasm about the ospreys.
In 2023 Flora HK0 arrived on 30th March and Harry on 4th April. Together, they successfully raised three chicks to fledging.
Flora was last seen on 10th August and Harry 7th September. (The camera stream was offline from 13- 23 August)
Thank you Richard for initial information which I’ve edited to include last year’s figures.
Links
August 2023 to February 2024
Live stream - SSEN Transmission as provided by Wildlife Windows
RETURN DATES 2024
Flora (Blue HK0) 28 March 19.19
Harry 29 March 14.40
EGGS LAID
15/04/24 at 11.01 ———————-Hatched 21 or 22/05/24
18/04/23 at 09.04 (I think!) ————--Hatched 23/05/24
21/04/23 sometime in the morning. ————Hatched 26/05/24
SADLY, ONE CHICK DIED ON THE NEST ON 30/05/24
LIVE STREAM WAS DOWN FOR OVER TWO WEEKS FROM MAY 31. WHEN IT RETURNED, IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE CHICK REMAINING ON THE NEST.
The CHICK FLEDGED on 26/07/24
MIGRATION
Flora and the juvenile left at some point before the end of August when the live stream was down. (12-22 August)
However, I suspect it may have been the 21st August that the last one (or both) left as Harry was seen on the nest on the 22nd with a fish.
Harry was around for a few days after, seen on the 26th August and probably it was him on the 30th as well, which would have been his last sighting.
All photos and videos copyright SSEN Transmission Alyth and Wildlife Windows
Harry (left) and Flora HK0 at the beginning of season 2023.
July 2024 - (from left) Flora, chick, Harry.
July 2024 - The chick and Flora.
31 May
Flora removed the dead chick from the nest at 04.28 this morning.
The 2 remaining chicks got a feed at 08.24
08.25
The cam went down just after 9am and is currently still down.
©️SSEN Alyth
Amazing how they do this. RiP little one.
There hasn’t been any live stream here since it went down on May 31. Wildlife Windows posted on the chat that they “will be looking at the transmission hardware for this nest camera this week to enable continued monitoring.”
I saw this message yesterday on the YT chat. Latest info from Wildlife Windows re the camera situation.
The chicks will have grown so much by then, but hopefully we’ll get to see them again.
Can understand..was up Alyth yesterday for a while but could just see Flora’s head pop up occasionally
That was nice that you got to see Flora’s head Ailie! The nest must look so high up seeing it in the flesh.
The live stream has reappeared this morning (with a 6 minute delay)! Sadly, a chick has been lost at some point. Remaining chick seems to be doing well. I guess we will never know what happened here whilst cam was down.
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Thank you, JANNI
The target of the 18th has been missed.
I thought I'd do a sketchy vid to let YouTubers know what's been going on, I had to record bits from rollback because I'd given up downloading this cam.
(Don't say anything about me not being able to tell the difference between green and blue, I'm all too aware but can't overcome it!)
IMAGICAT
Thank you Janni for letting us know about the sad loss of another chick and Scylla for your video. The last chick left looks strong. What a shame for these two experienced parents to have lost 2 out of 3 chicks this year.
This Osprey season overall has had a lot of upset and sadness.