An ornithologist for the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, Tim Mackrilll, said it was not one of the eagles the organisation was tracking from the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n
He said: “I suspect it is a juvenile from Scotland.<\/p>\n
“There are now around 200 pairs of white-tailed eagles in Scotland and we know that young birds can be highly nomadic in their early years.”<\/p>\n
Having seen pictures of the bird, Mackrill believes it fledged last summer and it was be exploring for the first time.<\/p>\n
Chief executive of the Northumberland Wildlife Trust Mike Pratt said he was “delighted” to hear the eagle was in the area.<\/p>\n
He said: “What a treat for members of the public and bird watchers alike.<\/p>\n
“I’m delighted that such a wonderful bird chose to touch down at a number of our reserves along Druridge Bay and our Holywell Pond reserve near Whitley Bay.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ornithologist for the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, Tim Mackrilll, said it was not one of the eagles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-443392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}