US Marines pile aboard twin-propeller Osprey and Sea Stallion choppers

Mission to Dartmoor: US Marines pile aboard twin-propeller Osprey and Sea Stallion choppers after they swoop in from USS Iwo Jima warship off Ireland US Marines were pictured boarding the Sea Stallion helicopters on Dartmoor near Okehampton last month  Residents also got to see the twin propeller Osprey helicopter which boasts tilt rotors and travel … Read more

US Marines pile aboard twin-propeller Osprey and Sea Stallion choppers

Mission to Dartmoor: US Marines pile aboard twin-propeller Osprey and Sea Stallion choppers after they swoop in from USS Iwo Jima warship off Ireland US Marines were pictured boarding the Sea Stallion helicopters on Dartmoor near Okehampton last month  Residents also got to see the twin propeller Osprey helicopter which boasts tilt rotors and travel … Read more

Heartless yobs chop down osprey nest with a chainsaw – just one day after bird laid first egg

Heartless yobs chop down osprey nest with a chainsaw – just one day after protected bird laid its first egg of the season in ‘horrendous wildlife crime’ The attack took place at Llyn Brenig reservoir in Denbigh Moors, north Wales – one of only five breeding sites for the rare Osprey birds within Wales  Springwatch … Read more

Heartless yobs chop down osprey nest with a chainsaw – just one day after bird laid first egg

Heartless yobs chop down osprey nest with a chainsaw – just one day after protected bird laid its first egg of the season in ‘horrendous wildlife crime’ The attack took place at Llyn Brenig reservoir in Denbigh Moors, north Wales – one of only five breeding sites for the rare Osprey birds within Wales  Springwatch … Read more

Lockdown birdwatchers are on tenterhooks monitoring osprey nestcam

Birdwatchers are on tenterhooks monitoring an osprey nestcam during the coronavirus lockdown as a female sits waiting for her missing male mate who has the future of a breeding programme in his talons.    Hundreds online, including BBC presenter Chris Packham, are observing the nest on a heath along the edge of Poole Harbour, where a … Read more