Osprey chicks at Loch Garten, Strathspey, Scotland

Jul. 21, 1972, Loch Garten, Strathspey, Scotland, UK: A pair of osprey chicks exercise up in their nest at Loch Garten. The pair of osprey chicks hatched at the end of May in the eyrie at Loch Garten, Inverness-shire, have made their debut as they exercised their wings standing in the nest in preparation for the long flight to Africa. The eyrie is in a 40-foot-high pine tree, ringed with barbed wire, in the 700-acre sanctuary of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The rare, fish eating hawks came back to Scotland in 1959 after an absence of half a century. Twenty five young have been reared successfully at the Loch

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Absence Acre Barbed Chicks Debut Exercised Eyrie Garten Hatched Hawks Inverness Loch Osprey Reared Ringed Sanctuary Shire Strathspey Successfully

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