Blog: ospreys

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We welcome guest bloggers! If you've something to write home about - whether you've got a trail cam in your garden, or you've made a bird box, or visited one of our nature reserves - if it's to do with Cumbria's wildlife & wild places then we'd love to hear from you!

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Image of Foulshaw Moss ospreys return on 26 March 2021

Ospreys return & eggs arrive....

Ospreys have nested at Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Foulshaw Moss reserve for the ninth year. Guest blogger and Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve volunteer Alasdair McKee tells us more...

Osprey family

Poem: 'Soar'

Local writer and poet Catherine Morgan Wania, from South Lakeland, recently collaborated with Teazhy, a Nigerian poet, to write a poem about osprey migration from Cumbria to a place near Abuja,…

Image of Foulshaw ospreys and chicks June 16 2020

Family dynamics in the osprey nest

As the osprey chicks grow and get more boisterous, Alasdair McKee, a volunteer at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, describes how Blue 35 sometimes needs to find some 'alone time'

Image of osprey with chicks at Foulshaw Moss May 2020

Osprey chicks arrive at Foulshaw Moss

It was a long six weeks for Foulshaw osprey watchers. The wait is now over and Alasdair McKee describes the the chicks' arrival over the past week.

ospreys on nest - family portrait 2019

Comings and goings of the osprey family

The first week in September usually marks the end of osprey season at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve as the birds begin their epic migration.

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