Dyfi Ospreys

Monty stayed around until Sunday morning. We had glorious weather over the weekend and thousands of people watched him on the Live Streaming. He stayed more or less on the nest and larch perch throughout Friday and Saturday - as if he knew we were saying goodbye to him.

Saturday morning in the sunshine, Monty, the last osprey still with us.

Monty's job was done for another year, his calling for warmer climes was getting stronger and on Sunday morning at 10:50 he flew off his larch perch and immediately started to circle and gain height. We watched him for another 18 minutes until he was a tiny spec, high in the blue sky - he must have been half a mile up.

He then circled one last time before breaking off and heading south. We lost sight of him high over the Ceredigion hills at 11:08.
Monty departs