LIVE RUTLAND WATER OSPREY WEBCAM, ENGLAND
- Local time
- Location: Rutland Water Nature Reserve, Oakham, England
- Source: Rutland Osprey Project
-
Info:
Live osprey webcam at Manton Bay in England. The osprey nest shown is located at Rutland Water Nature Reserve in Oakham. The ospreys have nested here successfully, since 2015.
Rutland Water is one of the best places to enjoy viewing birds and wildlife in the UK.
To see more ospreys in the British Isles, visit : Live Osprey Webcams in the UK
All the ospreys that have been translocated or born as part of the Rutland Osprey Project are fitted with two rings. One ring is a blue and white Darvic ring which has a unique identifying number on it, and the other is a British Trust for Ornithology metal ring. The colour rings can be read at a distance through binoculars, allowing for identification of individual birds. Three ospreys are also satellite tracked with lightweight transmitters allowing the birds to be followed on their migration routes.
The first ospreys at Rutland Water were translocated as chicks from nests in Scotland. The aim of the project was to establish a breeding population of ospreys in central England. In 2001, a male osprey who had been translocated in 1997, bred with an un-ringed female, close to the reservoir and they successfully raised a chick. Today, over 150 young ospreys have fledged from nests in the Rutland Water area since the first chick in 2001.
The project has been so successful that some Scottish ospreys have stopped off to breed at Rutland Water and Rutland-born Ospreys are returning to breed there as well as in other parts of Britain, including Wales. This shows the impact that the project has had both locally and nationally. The success of the Rutland Osprey Project has directly led to similar Osprey translocation projects in Andalucia, in Spain and Maremma National Park in Italy.
Video showing the first flight of the Osprey young at Manton Bay, last season (2023)
Additional information:
Leisestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
British Trust for Ornithology