Magnificent Seren swoops back to Dyfi Osprey centre
She's looking magnificent – Seren the osprey is back home for the spring and summer. Now she has a job on her hands as she vies for the attention of the male Monty.
Thousands of people from across Shropshire and Mid Wales visit the birds of prey each season at the Dyfi Osprey centre. And tens of thousands more follow their progress online at
Seren arrived back from her winter home in north Africa yesterday and was today settling in. But she will soon have company when rival female Glensi arrives.
Glensi has been the chosen bird for Monty for the past five seasons hatching out young and feeding them fish from the Dyfi estuary.
The two females are expected to battle it out for the right to mate with Monty, with the loser being forced to find another nesting platform in the region.
This year visitors to the centre are being warned that it will be a challenging year for the project.
Manager Emyr Evans said: "We opened the Dyfi Osprey Project for the very first time in late April 2009 and ever since we've had grant funding to varying degrees. This year, notwithstanding funding for half of one salary, we're flying solo - financially that is.
"It costs around £150,000 per year to run the project and we're going to have to find this ourselves from donations and other avenues."
