Osprey | Pandion haliaetus
The osprey is a migratory bird of prey, present in the UK in summer. Learn more about ospreys. Get closer to an osprey via our osprey webcams in Cumbria.
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Osprey cam
Osprey webcam in Cumbria live streaming from Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve in the South Lakes. #FoulshawOspreys
Sponsor trees for Skiddaw Forest
Sponsor trees today, for yourself or as a gift, and help to grow 600,000 trees. Together we’ll bring a rainforest to life!
Your donation will help to bring trees and wildlife back to the Skiddaw Forest landscape. With the help of volunteers, we’re going to plant 25 species of native trees and shrubs on the slopes, creating a rich haven for lichens and mosses, and a home for upland birds, mammals and plants.
We’re growing the trees locally in Cumbria, at community nurseries in Kendal, Penrith, Bassenthwaite and Carlisle, as well as in partnership with HMP Haverigg. Your sponsorship donation will help to keep these nurseries running, by funding electricity and water supply, compost and tools, and staff to co-ordinate volunteer tree-growing.
The rainforest we grow together will cover 20% of the Skiddaw Forest area and will take around 100 years to mature – so this really is an investment for the future of our planet.
Your donation will help to bring trees and wildlife back to the Skiddaw Forest landscape. With the help of volunteers, we’re going to plant 25 species of native trees and shrubs on the slopes, creating a rich haven for lichens and mosses, and a home for upland birds, mammals and plants.
We’re growing the trees locally in Cumbria, at community nurseries in Kendal, Penrith, Bassenthwaite and Carlisle, as well as in partnership with HMP Haverigg. Your sponsorship donation will help to keep these nurseries running, by funding electricity and water supply, compost and tools, and staff to co-ordinate volunteer tree-growing.
The rainforest we grow together will cover 20% of the Skiddaw Forest area and will take around 100 years to mature – so this really is an investment for the future of our planet.
Osprey
A great way to get up close and personal with the magnificent osprey is via one of the many nestcams set-up in the places that it breeds: Scotland, Cumbria, Wales and Rutland in the Midlands.
Osprey pair Blue 35 and White YW offspring update
Here's an updated summary of the Foulshaw Moss osprey pair's offspring since 2014.
Ringing the osprey chicks
Yan and Tan are now known as 410 and 411 (officially at least). Alasdair McKee, osprey enthusiast and volunteer at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, explains why ringing the osprey chicks is so…
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Where are the osprey now?
As excitement mounts ahead of their return, there are a couple of questions that we often get asked about our lovely osprey – where are they now and how do we know they’ll be back?
Close up with the osprey chicks
Ringing the 2015 Foulshaw Moss osprey chicks
Previously on Osprey Watch...
Christmas has nothing on the levels of excitement building towards April when we hope to see our osprey back at Foulshaw Moss. Last year we had a fantastically successful year with 3 chicks…
Know Your Osprey
If you’re an expert birder then you’re probably already pretty adept at picking out a distinctive bird like the osprey – but for those of us a little less expert in all things feathery it can be…
Foulshaw Moss osprey timeline
Have a look back at the key events of the osprey’s time at our Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve