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Even when they returned in the 1950s to recolonise old haunts, their small numbers remained under threat, especially from postwar pesticides such as DDT.But now the osprey's tenacity gives real encouragment to environmentalists.

Osprey webcam thrills bird lovers as Lady of the Loch awaits mate 2011

OSPREY FACTS■ The osprey's UK stronghold is in Scotland, but they recently began breeding at Bassenthwaite in Cumbria and there is a pair in Wales in the Glaslyn valley.

Osprey webcam thrills bird lovers as Lady of the Loch awaits mate 2011

On the way, I passed some wonderful spots, a couple of nature preserves with a fishing egret and an osprey's nest, a public beach which was closed at the time I find "closing" a beach slightly absurd, but Americans obviously don't, and several very american buildings.

Orient Point Torill 2009

On the way, I passed some wonderful spots, a couple of nature preserves with a fishing egret and an osprey's nest, a public beach which was closed at the time I find "closing" a beach slightly absurd, but Americans obviously don't, and several very american buildings.

Archive 2009-06-01 Torill 2009

Far out, he saw a wooden pole on which he could just make out the straw of an osprey's nest.

Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

With difficulty it detached one foot from the fish, which now fell down at full length and disarranged the osprey's flight.

The Young Alaskans Emerson Hough 1890

Once I saw a bunch of feathers fly from the osprey's back.

My Tropic Isle 1887

The osprey, with steady beat of outstretched wing, flies "squaking" from its agile enemy, who endeavours to alight on the osprey's back.

My Tropic Isle 1887

Just as white-belly stretches its talons for a grip among the osprey's feathers, the osprey turns -- and turns without a tremor in its long, sweeping wings -- to shake hands with white-belly.

My Tropic Isle 1887

Other birds, as the purple grakles, often build among the sticks of the osprey's nest, and rear their young without being meddled with by this generous bird.

The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850