It's been a busy few weeks at the Project! I've been up North working with Primary Schools in Sutherland and twinning them with schools in the South. Philip's been delivering the first round of Eagle School sessions. We all had a lovely day at Yarrow & Ettrick Show and I had a great afternoon over at Glenlude at the John Muir site on Thursday with the lovely Karen Purvis and her wonderful volunteers. It's busy but it's all good stuff!

Edward, Emily and Beaky are all doing well and utilising the food provision sites. Beaky and Edward seem to have found each other again and have been together for the last week or so (see bottom picture). In the top picture, Emily is 'mantling' over her food, a behaviour common to raptors in which they 'shield' their prey with their wings. The photo also nicely shows the amount of white present on a young eagles tail feathers.

BBC News featured the project on the National News last night - including a video taken by Eagle Officer John (during one of his regular and very distant monitoring sessions) of young Beaky being mobbed by two Buzzards as she enjoys her freedom in the Moffat Hills. Project Manager Cat and Prof. Des Thompson of Scottish Natural Heritage comment on the project - you can watch the piece here:

First Golden Eagles released into the Southern Uplands!