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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.
More pictures coming soon.........
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:
Having been incredibly busy lately we must apologise for the lack of updates on the Blog. Please rest assured that we will be releasing a full update as soon as we can to bring you news and details of this year’s translocation and the latest project news.
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