England’s white-tailed eagles return 

EXCELLENT WORK 'WELL DONE' 👌

Well done.

As of 2020 we have 150 breeding pairs in the UK. That number is now bigger of course

I grew up in Denmark, but have lived in the UK for nearly 30 years. The only place I have ever seen White Tailed Eagles is just outside my childhood village on visits to my parents. Quite special!!

Can they be trained to eat Canada Geese? Please?

Indeed! Scotland has been destroyed by Sitka and Norweigan Spruce. And the future is bleak, as all the escapees from plantations mature. Scottish Woodlands buy up land everywhere they can, plant alien species, and devastate what is left of natural habitats. Criminal.

What is it? Why is it so bad?

@@sarahmaher6568 I wondered the same thing. What I have discovered is that it is a non-native tree. Originally it came from the Pacific Northwest of North America. But, it has been planted in the UK for commercial reasons. However, one of the negative impacts of this in terms of wildlife is Sitka spruce plantations often create dense, monoculture forests that support less biodiversity compared to native broadleaf woodlands. The dense canopy limits light penetration, reducing the undergrowth and thus the variety of plants and animals that can thrive in these environments.

Sitkah spruce is fine when it’s not planted tightly packed in a monoculture plantation. A couple sitkahs in a broadleaf woodland although not native aren’t going to kill everything.

Except that the countryside is a VERY different place from that which it was a few hundred years ago.

My friend lives on a farm near to poole. Next to her is a farm. Something huge swooped down and killed one of the grey geese and took it. It was one of a pair. The other bird is extremely stressed and has now got to be locked away

I believe there are a breeding pair on the Isle of Wight, I was lucky enough to see and actually scare one by accident down here in Cornwall. I was walking over one of the carns (big hills) near Redruth and as I walked along a low hedge(stone wall boundary) a huge bird, at first I thought it was a heron took flight about 20 feet from where I was walking. The under colour was nothing I had seen on a heron, buzzard or even kite and it was up and away before I had even time to try a get a picture, so I looked up all the birds of prey, shape of tail feather and under colour and found the white tail the only one to fit what I had seen. I had a trip to Carmarthen soon after and they have a bird display in their Eden progect and asked about the white tail. They confirmed the eagles on the IOW patrol right over Devon and Cornwall up to South Wales. A lucky privilege on my part.

Mull is an incredible experience.

Let’s guess… barsteward game keepers. With full knowledge and connivance of the money grubbing estates and heartless gentry and wannabe nouveau-aristos

No. White tailed sea eagles are 8ft in wingspan fully grown. A osprey is just 5ft. White Sea eagles are massive

@@devidwobinson8747 Thank you. Great to know we have a larger diversity now than I knew of.

Yeah, and nurses need more pay! Can you think of any other completely irrelevant comments?

Do you mean the Anglo-Saxons? Or the Celts? I think most of the ancient Britains have died out mate.

@@Putnamsmif Anglo Saxon or Celtic. We're still here, God's people.

Troll

If we understood nature things would be better for all, what this comment has to do with Eagles I`ve no idea.

....it gets them started.

@@blaze1148 Exactly! Humans caused the problems, and there's nothing wrong with humans giving them a leg up, as reparations (normally I consider reparations nonsense. Fine with wildlife, though).

@@blaze1148To tide them over until lambing season you mean?

Yorkshire moors & dales would be unbelievable

I think the sheep farmers will be far more concerned than the shooting industry, big birds like these aren’t good in woodland environments & they are too slow & unwieldy to catch grouse. But it’s lambing time now & they are an easily caught defenceless prey which provides a lot more food for a big predator like this. It’s already happened many times, more releases will just result in greater losses of lambs & some long suffering sheep farmer facing bankruptcy may be tipped over the edge by this. No such releases should be permitted without adequate funding being first put in place to compensate those adversely affected by it in perpetuity. As ever these schemes are pushed through with no thought or consideration for those who have to suffer the consequences.

@@jonathanhicks140Absolutely dumb-arse to release these in inner country woodlands and moorlands. Just asking for the poor individual victims of such experiments to be killed. Stick to coastal areas (sans large wind farms).

Hi Paul, despite once being widespread across the country, human persecution was unfortunately the cause. This project is key in reintroducing this iconic species to our Isles - Thank you.

An eagle riding a motorbike !!!! 😁

Sorry Steve, i couldn't resist

I've spotted a few in Wales and Gloucestershire such a beautiful sight