Neurotic marsh harriers pay a visit

EAGLES, hawks and falcons are the celebrities of the bird world.

Like their human equivalents, some of these raptors are primadonnas, who lose the rag when nosey-parkers or the paparazzi invade their space.

Golden eagles, for example, will skulk off their eyries if someone comes within a mile of them. But Scottish eagles and their Norwegian white-tailed cousins allowed chicks to be taken for Irish re-introduction programmes, without throwing tantrums or deserting their nests.