Tim McCrill

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Get Birding · The Birding World Comes to Rutland · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

So I just feel like it's undoing past wrongs, really.

And it really started off a lifetime's work with ospreys.

So I've been involved with the original translocation here, but subsequently my work's continued and I've been involved with the second English translocation down at Pool Harbour.

So...

Ospreys have really become part of my career, but this is where it all started for me and for ospreys in this part of England.

So I always love coming down to Manton Bay and seeing this scene.

It's just, you know, the best views of ospreys I think you can get just about anywhere.

So historically speaking, the osprey was a bird that was widespread across Britain.

So we know that in Shakespeare's day, for example, Shakespeare refers to osprey in the tragedy of Coriolanus.

So the fact that he was talking about ospreys at the time when people were coming to see his plays, he must have thought they would have known what an osprey was.

Otherwise, why refer to them?

So they were widespread.

They were common.

But like many birds of prey, they were persecuted, and actually ospreys were one of the first species to be persecuted because they were seen as competitors with humans for fish, particularly when fish was eaten on Fridays for religious purposes.

So over the centuries, the population dwindled, and the last pair nested in England in 1847.

The ospreys are migratory birds, so they migrate from the UK down to West Africa.

And the problem is, is that despite the fact they've got this amazing ability to cover literally hundreds of miles a day,

When it comes to breeding, they want to go back to the area they fledged from.

So the idea with the translocation project, and the birds were actually released on Lacks Hill, which we can see from the hide here,

The young birds were released so that they regarded Rutland as home rather than Scotland.

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