Excellent news today - we now have two ospreys at the Dyfi again! At just before noon today our resident osprey returned to the nest from a fishing trip but this time with a mate. The new bird is a male which means that the osprey we thought was a male, that's been here since early April, was in fact a female! It can sometimes be difficult to gender an osprey by just looking at one bird especially if the brown breast collar is fairly light - that's my excuse anyway!. 450 visitors came to the project today and it was lovely to hear them gasping and chatting away looking at two ospreys simultaneously live on two large plasma screens.I hope both birds will be here for the summer obviously, but we have been here before of course. However it is good news that it was the female that has stayed so long as it is the female osprey that tends not to wander around so much once she has settled on an area she claims as 'home'. Hopefully the Dyfi will now be her base for future years; sadly though, it's too late to breed this year.
