A rare pair make their home in a tourist hotspot and draw crowds of delighted onlookers.

Reintroducing ospreys to the wild is difficult in England for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest challenges is the desirability of osprey eggs to human thieves, particularly collectors of rare eggs. When breeding season begins in Bassenthwaite, wardens launch a round-the-clock guard to prevent the ospreys eggs being stolen from their nests. The osprey breeding project at Bassenthwaite shown in this film was successful, and now visitors to the lake can see ospreys putting on an aerial display between April and August every year.

An edition of the Tyne Tees Television wildlife programme Wild North, presented by Kim Inglis. In the first part of the programme a report from on pair of Ospreys nesting at Bassenthwaite Lake in Cumbria followed by research being carried out by Newcastle University researcher Sally Singh into Ladybirds. Pupils from Ebchester Primary School in County Durham are helping with her work.

In the second part of the programme a report on wildlife artist and police wildlife liaison officer Paul Henry, as he paints from the Farne Islands. The final report from Middleton-in-Teesdale on a bat survey being carried out by both experts and volunteers.

There are two short sections where the film unfortunately jumps ahead during this programme, due to problems in the source video.