Roy Dennis

He has a PhD on osprey migration, he's travelled to West Africa to study ospreys, and he's the author of two books, The Rutland Water Ospreys and Spotlight Ospreys.

Part of his work for the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation is to reintroduce ospreys to England and reinforce populations here.

And I'm really thrilled to have him here today to try and erect an osprey platform in one of our oak trees to try and entice them here to NEP.

Tim welcome to the podcast of course we know you well as our partner in the White Stork Project which has been going now for 10 years and you've been an integral part of that but it's really wonderful to have you here talking about an entirely different bird that you've had amazing success with and we're standing here we've been on the hunt for the right place to put an osprey platform and it's reminded me of flat hunting with my daughter I mean my god talk about picky but tell us what we're doing and what you're looking for exactly

But we know that the osprey is a bird that's recovering really well in England.

So as you rightly say, it's been reintroduced.

I first got involved with ospreys, very eager 15-year-old schoolboy, and that's when I first met Roy Dennis, when he was just beginning to bring ospreys down from Scotland to Rutland Water, which for me was just the most fantastic, inspirational experience ever.

And my career has gone on from then through the Rutland Osprey project and then through the reintroduction project we more recently ran at Pool Harbour.