Come face to face with baby ospreys!
Young nature fans are being invited to join Forestry Commission wildlife rangers and watch Northumberland's record breaking osprey chicks ringed!
But to win this fabulous prize you will have to put on your thinking caps and suggest catchy names for the feathered youngsters.
Last year Kielder Water & Forest Park Development Trust ran a competition to come up with names for the three 2010 chicks - ten year old Olivia Graham from Wooler topped the entries with her great suggestions of Splash, Spray and Aqua.
This year the ospreys have laid three more eggs for the third year in succession - an amazing hat-trick! - and fingers are crossed that all of them hatch and chicks take to the skies, but there are no guarantees.
Even so Kielder chiefs want to give children plenty of time to get creative so they are launching the competition now in search of three great names.
"The competition really caught children's imagination and once again we want them to come up with suggestions that capture the star quality of these magnificent fish-eating birds. The chance to join rangers when the chicks are ringed is a once in life time thrill."
Ospreys first nested in Kielder Water & Forest Park in 2009 using an artificial platform erected by tree climbing wildlife rangers. The pioneering pair were the first to breed successfully in the North East for at least 200 years, raising three healthy Northumbrian chicks. They repeated this wonderful feat last year.
The closing date is 6 July and the competition is open to children aged between the ages of 5 - 16 years old.
There will only be one winner. The prize is subject to terms and conditions and is non-transferable and the winner and guardian/parent must be available mid-week around the middle of July to attend the ringing.
Ospreys were once distributed widely in the UK, but persecution resulted in the species becoming extinct in England as a breeding bird in 1840 and in Scotland in 1916. Some birds re-colonised Scotland in the 1950s and by 2001 there were nearly 160 breeding pairs (today about 200). The same year saw the first successful osprey nests in England for 160 years by re-colonising birds in the Lake District and re-introduced ones at Rutland Water in the East Midlands.
Ospreys arrive in the UK in late March and April and leave again for Africa in August and September to avoid the cold northern European winter.
Ospreys normally breed for the first time when they are aged between 2 and 4 years old and are strongly faithful both to nest and mate.
The nest is generally built on the top of a large tree, usually a conifer.
Females lay two or three eggs at 1-3 day intervals which are incubated for about 37 days per egg.
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