It isn’t just the royal family
who are celebrating the arrival of a new baby – as a pair of Mull’s famous white-tailed
eagles just beat them to it.
The eagles at the North West Mull
Community Eagle Watch are believed to have hatched one egg sometime in the 24
hours before the royal birth was announced but rangers monitoring the nest from
a distance were only able to confirm a feed this week.
All eyes are now on the public
nest in the community-owned forest at West Ardhu to see if it is, in fact,
twins for the eagle pair, who are known as Hope and Star.
The 12-year-old female Hope had
become increasingly reluctant to leave the nest near Dervaig when her
nine-year-old mate Star landed to take over incubation duties – a sure sign
that she was hearing the chicks calling from inside the egg and did not want to
leave them.
Sea eagle eggs hatch a day or two
apart, so hopes were still high that there would be another arrival.
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