month of opening after two years of being closed. the centre s biggest draw is this observation area, looking out onto a tall platform containing an osprey nest. all right, so you can see the nest in the far distance here. so it s quite a large nest. massive. yeah, it s over a metre wide. and we need that nest to be big because the chicks get really big, really fast. it looks quite far away from here. so, it does look far away but it is actually one of the best spots to see them, even from the windows, and we have our live cameras up there, you can have a really good look at them on the nest. it s incredible to think that they travel all the way from west africa, here, to the highlands of scotland. yes, so they migrate at the end of march, beginning of april, from west africa, senegal,
wow! the partnership use a range of methods to help restore the landscape, including planting trees and managing deer numbers. this part of the cairngorms is owned by the royal society for the protection of birds. and their on site visitor centre at loch garten has just reopened after a big renovation. this place looks shiny and new. yeah, it is, yeah, the first month of opening after two years of being closed. the centre s biggest draw is this observation area, looking out onto a tall platform containing an osprey nest. all right, so you can see the nest in the far distance here. so it s quite a large nest. massive. yeah, it s over a metre wide. and we need that nest to be big because the chicks get really big, really fast.
trees and managing deer numbers. this part of the cairngorms is owned by the royal society for the protection of birds. and their on site visitor centre at loch garten has just reopened after a big renovation. this place looks shiny and new. yeah, it is, yeah, the first month of opening after two years of being closed. the centre s biggest draw is this observation area, looking out onto a tall platform containing an osprey nest. all right, so you can see the nest in the far distance here. so it s quite a large nest. massive. yeah, it s over a metre wide. and we need that nest to be big because the chicks get really big, really fast. it looks quite far away from here. so, it does look far away but it is actually one
we have left but it is being constrained by grazing animals and burning and man s intervention for a couple of hundred years so we want to see the forest continue to march right up the hills and if we are able to come back in a couple of hundred years we would hopefully see trees on the skyline up there as well. wow! the partnership use a range of methods to help restore the landscape including planting trees and managing deer numbers. this part of the cairngorms is owned by the royal society for the protection of birds. and their on site visitor centre at loch garten has reopened after a big renovation. this place looks shiny and new. it is, the first month of opening after two years of being closed. the centre s biggest draw is this observation area, looking out onto a tall platform containing an osprey nest.
the centre s biggest draw is this observation area, looking out onto a tall platform containing an osprey nest. all right, so you can see the nest in the far distance here. so it s quite a large nest. massive. yeah, it s over a metre wide. and we need that nest to be big because the chicks get really big, really fast. it looks quite far away from here. so, it does look far away but it is actually one of the best spots to see them, even from the windows, and we have our live cameras up there, you can have a really good look at them on the nest. it s incredible to think that they travel all the way from west africa, here, to the highlands of scotland. yes, so they migrate at the end of march, beginning of april, from west africa, senegal, portugal, spain, and it takes them about 1 2 months to come all the way here.