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 2004 the Forestry Commission erected an osprey platform; responsibility for this was taken over by Natural Resources Wales and it was eventually occupied in 2014, and has been used every season since then.
In 2023 the unringed osprey known as Dylan returned to the the original nest (Nest 1) for his eighth 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, in 2022 one female and 2 males fledged. In 2023 2 males hatched but one (8B1) was predated by a goshawk before fledging. 5F Seren has regularly been seen in Africa in winter for many years - she was last seen in the Gambia on 8 February 2024.
In 2023 5F Seren returned to the nest on 25 March; Dylan arrived on 27 March. Both birds returned to the nest on 28 March 2024.
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.
In 2023 a natural nest (Nest 2) was found towards the southern end of the reservoir. From this nest Blue Z5, a 2020 bird from private nest in North Wales and an unringed male produced a single female chick who was ringed 7B9. Z5's father was blue Z1, a 2016 chick from the Dyfi, whose parents were Blue 12 (Glesni) and the unringed Monty. Nest 2 can be seen (with good optics) from the viewpoint at Bwlch y Gle.
The nests 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. John is planning that nest 1 will have one fixed and one PTZ camera this season - the live feeds are on a new link every 12 hours, which is accesible from https://www.youtube.com/user/CarnyxWild . Nest 2 will not have any streaming camera coverage. All images are copyright Natural Resources Wales.
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.
So good to hear of another pair reunited! What an amazing day
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
28 March
AG said:Female osprey on the nest at Clywedog. We think it is 5F Seren but ring not seen as yet signal is intermittent with lots of buffering. Could be 3J Telyn visiting from Dyfi - she usually pops by early in the season. Copyright NRW
Female osprey on the nest at Clywedog. We think it is 5F Seren but ring not seen as yet signal is intermittent with lots of buffering. Could be 3J Telyn visiting from Dyfi - she usually pops by early in the season. Copyright NRW
I had no footage whatsoever to work with so had to catch up on YT rollback, only partially successfully, therefore I took the liberty of using your early snap in this attempt at "Seren's arrival": I know I should have asked you first but it's been... heavy!
As for Dylan... well!
Special thanks to GLIDER and CATHY, what a great day
IMAGICAT
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Fortunately not a lot to do !!!
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02 April
The morning starts with mating on gthe perch and a piece of leftover fish found on the nest:
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Seren flying with her afternoon tea:
03 April
Not seen Dylan yet, but Seren's come down from the high perch and is waiting on the low one:
EDIT 06:18 - Dylan just landed on Seren for mating, then he had a little rest before flying off:
Well he never went fishing, cos he's just been back for another mating - and off he's gone again.
They've both just flown onto nest apparently to defend...
EDIT 07:41 - Dylan has flown, Seren's on the low perch.
It's been a terrible transmission day, probably due to the lack of battery-charging sun for so long. I didn't find a fish - but I've got nothing after about 10:00, and that was screen-captured as a result of multi-bufferings at nearly 8 o'clock in the evening !!!
Here was Dylan with a clump instead of a fish, it's been mega-enhanced to counter mist-blobs:
This evening the live stream duly cut off at 20:00 but it's now nearer 21:00 and there's no resumption.
Probably a good idea to give it a rest overnight. It's not as if we're expecting an egg quite yet.
scylla said:Probably a good idea to give it a rest overnight.
If we believe this, it's a rather longer rest that's planned!