Hope for more chicks as pair of ospreys reunited

Ornithologists are predicting that the couple could produce more

offspring following last year's record effort.

The female osprey raised three chicks – the first hatched in the North East of England for at least 200 years.

She has now returned to the same nest she used last year, a specially made platform high up in a tree in the Northumberland wilderness, where she was greeted by her partner, who flew in last week.

The birds, more common in Scotland, have found an ideal spot close to Europe's largest man-made lake, where they are nesting in the 155,000-acre Kielder Forest.

Footage of their nest is being streamed live to visitors and viewers were able to watch as the birds lost no time in getting reacquainted after the female tucked into a fish supper plucked from Kielder Water.

Osprey courtship often involves the male attempting to woo his partner by providing a tasty fish.

The bird stays faithful both to nest and mate.