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Ospreys on a live online nest camera in Lochaber have laid their first egg of the season and the Woodland Trust Scotland hopes the osprey family will provide a beneficial dose of nature during the current coronavirus lockdown.
Some of Lochaber’s most exotic annual visitors are set to help schoolchildren in Cornwall get through the lockdown imposed to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
Two tiny fly species never before seen in the UK and a rare rainforest fungus have been discovered at Woodland Trust Scotland sites on the west coast.
After dozens of suggestions were submitted for names for the two young osprey chicks at Loch Arkaig, the Woodland Trust Scotland, which manages the forest, has picked the winners.
A recent drop-in saw a steady footfall of interested local residents.
Thousands of people around the world will have been eagerly anticipating this week’s official switch-on of the live osprey cam at Loch Arkaig.
Woodland Trust Scotland has been gifted the land from Dunollie Estate for a peppercorn rent.
Nature takes its course as the three osprey eggs being taken by a pine marten during the night.
