What do you see in the picture, what do you think the story is about?
Three ospreys have been caught on a livestream camera on the Scottish borders nesting together. The three birds, two females and one male, are hatching four eggs together.
Why do you think people are surprised about this?
What would people normally expect to find in a nest?
Forestry and Land Scotland are monitoring the next using cameras. Previously, one of the females, who they called Mrs O, nested there, and this year she has been joined by another female.
Why do you think the other female osprey joined Mrs O?
Mrs O flies off to find food and when she returns, she shares the food with the other female. The male osprey also hunts for food and shares it with the two females when he returns.
Researchers saw Mrs O sitting on the eggs when the other female flew in and nestled beside her and offered her food from her beak.
What does that suggest about the relationship between the three birds?
How would you describe the relationship?
Researchers are watching the three birds work together to incubate the eggs.
What does incubate mean?
The nest behaviour with three birds together has not been caught on camera before now and researchers are excitedly watching to see what happens.
The eggs are expected to hatch within a few weeks.
Who do you think will look after the chicks?
Why do you think researchers are excited? Are different families exciting?
What does this suggest about people and their stereotypes around families?
Would you be excited at our school just because someone had a different family to you?
What is a family?
What would you say to the researchers about their excitement - what are the two sides to this question?
What do we say about families at our school?
Why is this about No Outsiders?
Which British value is this about?
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