On a damp and miserable morning a few days ago, volunteer Al Davies and I ventured up to the osprey nest to check some connections and take the nest cameras down. It's always interesting to see what's left in an osprey nest once the birds have departed for sunnier climes, so we put a Fisheye lens on the camera we'd brought and took the shot below.

Fisheye lenses are great as they see the world very much in the same way as we do - with a 180° angle of view. Raise your arms out to the side fully stretched, and see if you can see both hands without moving your head. Can you? Just like humans, ospreys also have binocular vision, so a Fisheye lens should see more or less what Monty and Nora could see whilst they were on the nest. They also saw, and ate, a few fisheyes of their own of course!

As a little thank-you for following the Dyfi Osprey Project, we've made this image available to download so that you can see in detail what's inside an osprey nest for yourself. You could use it as a desktop picture, a screensaver, or even photoshop your own ospreys in to the nest to make it look more realistic! Post your best efforts on our Facebook page.. Just click the image and it will open in another page for you, right-click and save, and you're done. By the way, you can see the Dyfi River above the nest and to the left - that's how far Monty had to go to fish; the hills in the background form the southern end of Snowdonia National Park.