The Return of the Record Breaking Osprey

“Lady”, the famous Scottish osprey has once again laid eggs at Loch of the Lowes, Perthshire. For more than two decades, this remarkable bird has returned every year to the nesting site at the Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve. Two years ago, the outlook was much less positive, when she became ill and stopped eating. Hopes for her surviving began to diminish until she suddenly made an unexpected recovery. Since then she has continued to make the annual 3000-mile migration from Africa to Scotland. Over the years, the 26-year-old bird of prey has laid more than 60 eggs and the majority of the hatched chicks have fledged. Considering the average age of a female Osprey is about 8 years, this is an astonishing feat of parenthood and survival, which continues to amaze SWT staff, visitors to the reserve and thousands of web cam viewers. If the three eggs are successfully incubated, the young should begin to hatch towards the end of May.