At the end of every season I sit down with my colleagues at Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust for a bit of a de-brief.

We talk about the season just gone, the highs, the lows, what worked and what, if anything, didn't. We also talk about the following season and when we do, one thing becomes apparent every year - we want DOP the following year to be better than it was in the current year. Simply, we want to try and make the Dyfi Osprey Project to be the best osprey project in the world.

Young Isla Pannett presents Janine with a cheque for £552 to keep our cameras rolling for another season. She did a one hour sponsored pogo-stick challenge and jumped 2,525 pogos!

So what does that mean?

1. Better protection of the nest, 24 hrs a day so there are no gaps in our surveillance, making the Dyfi nest one of the best protected there can be.

2. Better information about the ospreys and what they're doing.

3. Fast response times so when something happens, you know about it almost immediately. Send us a question? Get an answer back within 24 hrs, irrespective of what day of the week or Bank Holiday it is.

4. Better imagery. We pride ourselves in getting the best possible photographs of the ospreys - every year we aim to get better.

As the first rays of light illuminate the Dyfi valley, Celyn stretches her wings - August 2015

5. Better videos. Using multiple cameras and editing hours of footage together into a watchable, relatively short movie feature about a particular event whether it be arrivals, intruders, eggs, chicks, or owls. Yes, we love owls!

6. More cameras. This year we have introduced a fifth camera to our suite of nest cameras, and this one is a bit special. You may already have heard about it - you will have almost certainly seen some footage from it. More about this in a future blog.

Remarkable footage of three ospreys on the Dyfi nest

7. We also pride ourselves on being inclusive. Visiting a nature reserve, either in person or through the web, and learning about ospreys and other wildlife should not be a luxury enjoyed by a section of society but by everybody, irrespective of their physical or financial strength. That's why we were so anxious to build the wheelchair lift in the 360 Observatory of course, and it is also why we have suggested donation schemes for the live streaming and entrance to Cors Dyfi reserve - not fixed prices.

In order to deliver the Dyfi Osprey Project and fulfill our aspirations to be the best we possibly can, we needed a new portal to the world, a new window - and this is it. A new website.

Last year Kim (DOP Officer) and I started working on the new website along with Tammy, our Conservation Officer. The website needed to be fresh looking and be full of information. It needed to take the best bits from the old and introduce more content so that you have all the information you need to get the best out of DOP.

To be honest, we would have liked to have yet more content available at launch, but problems with configuring the cameras and IR lamp at the nest for the 2016 season put us back and we were also a bit busy with the Observatory lift! Our 21st March deadline passed due to technical problems and by the time we were ready a few days later, our ospreys were due back.

We therefore took the decision to launch the new website a few days after Monty and Glesni returned and before they laid eggs, that was our window.

Exactly a week ago tonight, at 21:00 last Thursday night, we started the transition from old to new. Within 48 hours the DNS settings had leveled out and everybody with a PC, laptop to Mac had full access to the website. By Monday morning we had fixed the issue of Live Streaming not working on iPads/iPhones/android phones/kindles etc.

The changeover - hold your breath!

Many people were asking why we chose to move over to a new website - we hope you agree that the new one was worth the seven months of work to get it to you. We'll add more osprey stuff as we go through the season; we have some great ideas already!

Thank you all for your patience going through the transition - these things take weeks and months sometimes, I'm over the moon that it took 3½ days.

We're working on a fix for the Live Chat (unrelated to the new website) and getting ready for the first eggs of the year.

I have no idea what Neil Armstrong et al felt like when their Apollo 11 capsule entered the dark side of the moon for the first time in July 1969 and lost all communications for several hours and everything went black.

I think I do now! Welcome to the other side. Enjoy...

Blue 24 this afternoon. Minutes later Monty mated with her, then stole her fish before taking it straight to Glesni at the nest!