Tim McCrill
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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They were taken from the nest under licence by Roy Dennis, who's been working with ospreys in Scotland since the late 50s.
And Roy had a special licence to remove a single chick from a brood of two or three.
That bird was then released here so that it regarded Rutland as home.
I think one of the most amazing things about ospreys is that these young birds have been flying for just a matter of days at the moment, and we've just seen them buzzing backwards and forwards to the nest.
But in probably a month's time, they'll be setting off on migration, and many birds migrate in mixed-age flocks, so youngsters will go with their parents or certainly experienced adult birds, but with ospreys,
They don't do that.
So the young ones are migrating totally on instinct.
They're going all the way to West Africa.
They've got no one showing them the way.
They probably haven't caught a fish for themselves before they leave.
So the really key thing, if they're going to survive that first migration, is to leave in good condition.
And this male, 33, is the champion fisher.
He brings so much fish back to these chicks, so they leave in really good condition.
Male and female ospreys do have well-defined roles in the breeding season.
So the female comes back, she obviously lays the eggs, and then she does most of the incubation.
She then broods the young, and it's the male's job to go off and catch the fish.
But by this stage, the female's job's kind of finished, so some females will leave, and they'll kind of leave the male to do it, whereas Maya, none of that.
She stays, and she actually supplements the food that 33 brings in, and I think that's one of the reasons that the chicks leave in such good condition.
which just gives them a better chance of surviving that journey.
Because you can imagine that not only have they got to navigate, they've got to catch fish for themselves.
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