Our incumbent male is still with us - nearly three weeks now so hopefully he is here to stay the summer. At first, both birds mantled to each other quite a bit, almost certain proof that this is a new male and that neither osprey had been together before. From his behaviour I think he is a young bird, possibly a two or three year old.Both ospreys spend most of their time either on the nest or on certain perches on the Dyfi estuary, some of which we can pick out with our nest cameras.
Now we've had a bit of time to study the osprey's feeding behaviour we know that the fish species favoured are mullet and bass. Other fish taken include sea trout, flounder, garfish and this unlucky plaice.
We welcomed our 10,000th visitor to the project over the weekend - hopefully the ospreys will be with us until late August/early September so that local children can have a chance to see them. I wish we had ospreys in Wales when I was a kid!