Latest News: Unfortunately the golden eagles' nest failed to produce any chicks this year. Two eggs were laid and the golden eagles tended them for the incubation period and beyond, before finally abandoning the nest. The eggs have now been removed for scientific analysis to see if they were fertile eggs that succumbed to cold, or whether they were infertile eggs. An update will be posted here, and a decision on a 2009 webcam will be made after the analysis.

Hidden cameras offer visitors to Atholl Estates the first chance to get inside a golden eagles nest

As from April visitors to Atholl Estates, will be able to view a Golden Eagle nest, with the parents and young in occupation. A digital camera link is being created for this spring’s nesting so that visitors to Atholl Estates will be able to watch the young eagles’ progress. The eagle cam link will be available to estate visitors and the public visiting Blair Atholl offering a very special and rare opportunity to see one of Scotland’s iconic birds of prey nurturing their young in the moorland wilderness.

To wildlife watchers, it is a spectacular and enthralling sight that few will ever get the chance to witness. But from spring, the opportunity to view the magnificent golden eagle in its natural habitat will be open to thousands of birdwatchers with the help of reality TV.

These the first live pictures directly from a golden eagles nest in the wild will be fed to a live viewing points, a couple of miles away, at Blair Castle and at the ranger information centre in the village of Blair Atholl. A hidden camera has been set up in the Eagles nest which will allow the public to view the species up close and view the adult eagles returning to their nest to feed their young.

This project is a collaborative effort between Atholl Estates, Tayside Raptor Study Group and Natural Research, with generous funding support from the Cairngorms National Park Authority's Community Investment Scheme, Natural Research and SNH.

Tayside Raptor Study Group website: http://www.scottishraptorgroups.org

Natural Research website: http://www.natural-research.org