Aran and Elen’s new nest has been completed and awaits the pair’s arrival later this month!
Darren Moore and his team from Friends of the Ospreys constructed the nest atop the 80-foot Silver Fir tree on Sunday.
Built in 2014 the old nest had been well used by all three of our Osprey pairings – 11(98) and Mrs G, Mrs G and Aran and Elen and Aran. In that time 26 chicks successfully fledged the nest but parts of it had started to deteriorate. It served the Glaslyn osprey families well!
With the kind permission of the National Trust, branches to build the new nest were secured from nearby Parc Craflwyn, Nant Gwynant where a larch tree had fallen during Storm Darragh.
A new oak perch has also been installed. The old one will be put on display at Pont Croesor so that visitors can get a close-up view.
We will show more images of the new nest once the three cameras and other equipment are reinstalled on the tree later this week. Thank you to Darren and his team and also to Gail Edgley who photographed Sunday’s event, another milestone in the story of Glaslyn Ospreys.
