female on nest this afternoon, osprey dive bombed her then flew to the nearby pond, she maintained her position during the head hit from an interloper!
juvenile osprey heard but not seen today, osprey family is now spending time at other end of pond in deep woods but I did see the adult male perched with fish on his fave tree briefly before he flew with fish toward crying juvenile. I will sign off as I am not in the area often and hope the others who live near this nest will listen for the sounds of juveniles. it does take a season or 2 or 3 to learn their behaviors. The young survived to fledge which is very fortunate in such a high nest in the woods.
homeowner reports family may be at other end of the pond early today. then around 3:30p the youngsters and adults returned to the nest. good news! possibly the youngest had trouble getting back to the nest yesterday as that can happen and osprey adults are very protective during the maiden flight phase so perhaps the family stayed with baby till it got back to nest? cant know for sure but thankful this trio is flying. I will sign off now and let SandyC track the final days of the juveniles visits to the nest. enjoy them as they seem to disperse quickly.
today a report that no osprey except the adult male were at the nest for night time. worried about owl attack of course as its very early for all the youngsters to be off the nest at dark.
1:30 pm SSE 6 mph winds with some light gusts, overcast 84, some storms moving through the area. I observed adult female on nest with the smallest chick that has the most buff coloring on wings so looks lighter in color (can not confirm this last chick has yet fledged), then a fledgling arrived to the nest. Adult male flew in to his favorite snag perch and dried his wings, he had a small fish. Adult female flew away and another fledgling arrived to the nest and appeared to mantel, it may have caught its own fish! This family is doing great this season.
4:55 pm, 3 chicks visible with adult female on the nest, then adult male brought in partial fish and female began feeding with male still on the nest. chicks look very healthy.
3 chicks clearly visible in the nest today with adult female. chicks look about 4-5 weeks old with one possibly a bit smaller.i was not certain of the hatch date and cant be sure of when these chicks might fledge, but they will be much later than most others.
I observed this nest for an hour today, it was very hot and mombrella was doing an incredible job of shading, so much so that I could only confirm 2 chicks but I did think I first saw 3..for now tho the count is 2. the adult male was on the nearby tree for the entire time and did not leave for fish nor did the female call for fish so I must have arrived just following feeding.
5:30 pm, female deep in the nest. rt leg banded male brought a partially eaten fish to the nest rim and waited but the female did not seem interested.male flew off toward the ocean. female remained very deep in the nest. I left and returned about 30 minutes later male was perched in favorite tree to the east and the female flew over toward him, did a quick fly around and went back to nest. she appeared to turn eggs and rocked back down deep in the nest.
Stopped by the nest site today at 3:30 pm. One osprey was fussing about in the nest and I thought I saw a chick but when I got a closer look I just saw one osprey deep and flat in the nest. A few minutes later an osprey approached carrying a fish, it appeared to be a male. It headed straight for the nest so I assumed it was the mate but as it came within a few feet of the nest the now apparent female that was incubating jumped up, the male dropped the fish outside of the nest and landed briefly on the female who tossed it off her back and the male flew off toward the direction of Rt.1, then the female settled back deep into the nest. The nest is much larger and deeper than in the early photo. No other osprey seen at this visit.
no data has been entered buy the monitor but I checked the nesting pair today and female was deep in the nest clearly incubating and the male was in the nearby pine tree.
This pair had a nest nearby last year that stayed intact even after the tree it was in fell down into the pond. The fledglings (2) were apparently not harmed and left the nest after a few weeks.
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