Letter: Osprey sitings
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The magnificent photograph of an osprey on the cover of the Weekend section (17 June) was accompanied by a text stating that until the Fifties this bird did not nest in this country.
My 1920 bird book questions whether the osprey could still be considered to be resident - as "one after another its historical eyries have been deserted ... the eyrie at Loch Arkaig was deserted in 1911, that on Loch- an-Ailein a few years earlier". It goes on to refer to the greed of collectors: clearly, nothing has changed.
Yours faithfully,
B. A. BENCE
West Charleton
Devon
18 June
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