Osprey

For thousands of years the osprey nested widely across Britain, returning each spring from West Africa to breed. But in the nineteenth century they were driven to extinction by egg collecting and the systematic persecution of birds of prey on shooting estates. But since the 1950s ospreys have slowly returned. In 2019 John Lister-Kaye and a team of young naturalist-rangers at the Aigas Field Centre west of Inverness set up a single old telegraph pole and wove a nest of sticks at its top, and wait