We caught the female osprey at nest B16 (a neighbour of Logie)in the evening 9th July 2008 using a decoy and a dho gaza net. She was in very good condition weighing 1862 grams: her wing length was 546mm and tail 235mm. Her ring number was BTO 127049. We fitted a GPS satellite transmitter and the released her, she flew straight to her favourite perch, a tall larch tree next to her nest.

We had identified this bird in 2003 from her colour ring Green 5B. She had been ringed as a chick in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire on 8th July 2000 by Ian Francis and Stuart Rae. She was one of three chicks. She arrived at nest B16 in 2003 but by the time a new mate settled in, it was too late to breed. She reared one chick in 2004, and two chicks each year 2005-2007, and has another two young this year. Her mate has been the same bird - which I ringed 'ochre TK' on Forestry Commission land near Elgin in 1998.

From her colour ring 5B we decided to call this osprey 'Beatrice' after the Beatrice oil field in the Moray Firth, which is operated by Talisman Energy UK plc who sponsored the GPS satellite transmitters for ospreys.

Beatrice wintered in 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 in southern Spain and returned to her nest in 2009 and reared two young. She has returned again in April 2010 but her old mate did not return, and she has now moved to a new nest.