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The famous osprey Louis was feared dead (Woodland Trust)<\/p>\nLouis finally appeared at his nest on Friday evening, more than two weeks later than he was expected.<\/p>\n
His arrival at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest means he can take part in the breeding season there, as he returns from migration to his current mate, Dorcha.<\/p>\n
Louis and his previous mate, Aila, became a hit during the first lockdown of the Covid pandemic in 2020, clocking up 400,000 views worldwide on the live nest camera of the site and being dubbed an \u201cavian influencer\u201d.<\/p>\n
The famous osprey Louis was feared dead (Woodland Trust)<\/p>\n
George Anderson, of Woodland Trust Scotland, said: \u201cLouis arrived over a fortnight later than last year, so we were beginning to think he had died over the winter or on migration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was absolute jubilation when he appeared on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis mate, Dorcha, arrived back on April 4 and has been rebuffing the attentions of a male half of Louis\u2019 age.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will wait for an established mate but only for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe may well have warmed to that toyboy this weekend if Louis hadn\u2019t arrived in the nick of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The live cameras at the forest are supported by the Postcode Lottery.<\/p>\n
Laura Chow, head of charities, said: \u201cIt is amazing to see Louis back for his tenth breeding season at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur players continue to support Woodland Trust\u2019s live nest cameras, which have allowed people all over the world to follow this feathered family for almost a decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatching Louis grow from an awkward novice into a dependable Dad, raising the next generation of ospreys with his first female Aila and more recently Dorcha, has been incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
As well as ospreys, the forest at Loch Arkaig is home to wild boar, sea eagles, golden eagles, pine martens and deer.<\/p>\n
It is one of the most significant areas of Caledonian pine forest and is the Woodland Trust\u2019s largest restoration project on land which it cares for directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louis finally appeared at his nest on Friday evening, more than two weeks later than he was expected.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-538763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538763","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=538763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}