Female Osprey NC0 vs Intruder Blue '7C1' - Loch of the Lowes Webcam (2024)

It is not just male osprey who will defend the nesting site and territory, female osprey too will take to the skies to ensure any unwanted intruders are 'escorted off the premises'.
On Monday 27th June a young 2 year old English osprey (Blue 7C1) landed on the nest, and kept both the resident female NC0 and her new young male partner the 'Dark Intruder' busy. She was eventually seen off the nest by NC0.
What was particularly interesting about this young female Cumbrian osprey (returning to the UK for the first time), was that she had also been seen at two nests in Wales prior to landing at Lowes; Clywedog on the 19th May and then intruded at Dyfi on the 24th.
She also has some famous Welsh osprey lineage, being the grand-daughter of the long time breeder Mrs G from Glaslyn (with her famously dark plumage) and the daughter of male Blue 9C, whose sister Blue 8C (both also from Glaslyn) intruded on the nest at Lowes in 2023 and 2022!
It just goes to show how both webcams and colour rings contribute to our understanding of the dispersal and population growth of osprey both in the UK and overseas.
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You can continue to see how the season unfolds here at Loch of the Lowes by following our live osprey webcam scottishwildli...

[@ISquishWorms]

Wow NC0 was not messing about those dives had some speed.

[@4july99]

Lovely to see a descendent of Mrs G 😊 NC0 wasn’t having any of it! In the description you’ve put June instead of May, just thought you’d want to know. Could be confusing in the future.

[@suzycat2026]

Another female appeared! Well done dynamic NCO 🌠
The last time another female landed it was great to see NCO & her Dark Male suitor pair up to see it off.
She will never give up her beautiful des. res. & rightly so.🙂

[@angelafenwick3247]

Has there been any update as to what had happened to laddie.