Feeling quite smug with myself having put a photoshopped image of the Dyfi osprey nest with a couple of Curlew in it this morning, I settled down to concentrate on the osprey side of things. A few people were taken in on Facebook (no names mentioned!) - all in good April Fool's day fun, of course.

We got some of you - hands up....

By 10am, Nora had been frantically nest building for most of the morning - had she seen someone we hadn't? Hearing shouting from the osprey hide, "large bird of prey circling", I zoomed the cameras around only to see a Red Kite soaring gently in the vicinity of the osprey nest. Nothing really out of the ordinary there. Until, that is, the Kite decided to get a closer look at what Nora had been building.

Ospreys are constantly mobbed by other birds - crows, waders, herons - even other smaller birds of prey. How would two raptor species of similar size react to each other, however?

(Watch in 1080P for best quality)

Neither bird blinked an eye lid. One being a generalist, eating small carnivorous food items including a lot of carrion; the other a highly specialised migrant that eats only fish. No conflict of interest - why fight!

In the 1970s and '80s, birds of prey were having a terrible time in the UK. After a tremendous amount of work by conservation organisations such as the RSPB and local Wildlife Trusts, the picture looks a lot healthier just a couple of decades on. This video would have been a great April Fool's joke 30 years ago in the UK, both the Osprey and the Red Kite were breeding in numbers you could count on both hands.

There was no photoshop or jiggery-pokery involved in this video however - this is no April Fool joke. What a great advertisment to the health of the ecosystem on the Dyfi estuary, having two top avian predators in such close proximity.