For thousands of years ospreys nested widely across Britain, returning each spring from West Africa to breed.
But in the nineteenth century they were driven to extinction by egg collecting and the systematic persecution of birds of prey on shooting estates.
In 2019, west of Inverness, John Lister-Kaye and a team of young naturalist-rangers set up a single old telegraph pole, wove a nest of sticks at its top and then waited. Would ospreys come back to nest?



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