Sea eagles flown to Scotland By Ronald Faux A batch of 10 young sea eagles arrived in Scotland yesterday from Arctic Norway on board an RAF Nimrod aircraft. They were bound, at fastest speed, for the national nature reserve on the island of Rhum, off the coast of Scotland, where 52 young sea eagles have been released during the past eight years. The arrival of the latest birds, noble-looking preditors with an eight-foot wingspan when mature, coincided with an annoucement by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds that the experiment to encourage the return of sea eagles into the natural en- vironment in Scotland was showing signs of success. Eggs were laid in two nests this year but none hatched, probably because the parents were still immature. The RSPB staff who found the nests and mounted a watch over them were disappointed, but confident that this could be the first sure sign that the patient work by, the society and the Nature Conservancy Council will prove successful next year. Unlike the birds in the Norwegian colonies, the Brit- ish sea eagles have been persecuted to extinction, main- ly because of Victorian notions that anything with beak and talons does irreparable harmi to lfestock and is best seen stuffed in a show case. Sea eagles flown to Scotland