Stories from the roost as the sea eagles come and go and nesting attempts take place
Look closely in the image above and you will see the webbed foot of a goose peeking through a large, feathery pellet that belongs to a white-tailed eagle. Recently, a nest analysis was carried out here in the forest by Robin Reid, RSPB. Robin has been studying prey remains of white-tailed eagle nests for over […]
Sea eagles eat geese.
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In June 2019, Max, as named by the local children during an eagle workshop with the RSPB, had a visit from a bird ringer. https://youtu.be/-VON9R0mbK4 Film: The ringing process of Max the white-tailed eagle Find out more about Max’s diet as he was raised Read about Uist Forest Retreat and Rewilding Europe Find out more
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Since early 2017, Angus and I have been exploring the activity around the forest using wildlife camera traps. During this time we have captured footage of many species including buzzards, ravens, golden eagles and sea eagles (white-tailed eagles). One of our images went slightly viral and you can read about it here. During 2017, we discovered
You never know what goes on in your back garden, or in our case the forest. Buzzards? Ravens? We see them frequently, they’re not shy. Then one day last winter we noticed we had return visitors of a larger kind, the white-tailed eagle had decided it was quite fond of stopping by. We set up
A white-tailed eagle drops by in the forest…… Read More »
Our image of the white-tailed eagle has now been viewed over 2 million times from the RSPB Highlands and Islands facebook page….. We’ve had a phenomenal response – phone calls, messages, press attention and to answer some of the questions here’s more of our story… So is it ACTUALLY real? Was the stag the result
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