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One of my favorite birds to photograph they will always pose for you.
There are two chicks in the nest. I have never seen the mother leave the nest. Papa will hunt for the family until the chicks are almost fully fledged.
These birds are very tolerant of people so they don't mind nesting where people are as long as there is a body of water near by for a food source. Osprey nest can be found on the ground or even up to 60 feet high on live trees, dead trees, utility poles, duck blinds, fishing shacks, storage tanks, aerials, cranes, power line transmission towers, billboards, chimneys, windmills, fences, channel buoys, and even on artificial platforms built by humans. Most nests vary in size, between one foot wide and up to ten feet wide, with the exterior composed of small and large sticks and an inside lining constructed of inner bark, sod, grasses, vines, and many other items that the osprey are able to carry away from the ground. Large nests may reach up to 400 lbs., and are often used in successive years!
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A whooping Crane sitting on a large nest that I photographed at the International Crane Foundation near Baraboo Wisconsin.
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The wasp is using its mouth to make something with something its partner brought back and putting it inside each cell in their nest.
The other day bought a set of blank wooden nesting dolls that I got on sale at Michael's, my next project is to do my own paintings in them. Been working in my sketchbook creating different ideas for this project. Here is the strange bird family version.
Ospreys are back to Connecticut. I found these nesting pair at Stamford, CT. This is just the beginning and I think I will have plenty of opportunity to capture them digitally this year. Lets hope for the best!
Nesting at Preston Docks
The Arctic tern is a seabird of the tern family, Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Wikipedia
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Type: BOP
Diet: Carnivore
Average life span in the wild:
30 years
Size:
Body, 21 to 23 in (54 to 58 cm); wingspan, 5 to 6 ft (1.5 to 1.8 m)
Weight:
3.1 to 4.4 lbs (1.4 to 2 kg)
Did you know?
The osprey is one of the most widespread birds of prey and can be found on every continent except Antarctica.
Ospreys are superb fishers and indeed eat little else—fish make up some 99 percent of their diet. Because of this appetite, these birds can be found near ponds, rivers, lakes, and coastal waterways around the world. Ospreys hunt by diving to the water's surface from some 30 to 100 feet (9 to 30 meters) up. They have gripping pads on their feet to help them pluck fish from the water with their curved claws and carry them for great distances. In flight, ospreys will orient the fish headfirst to ease wind resistance.
Ospreys are sometimes confused with bald eagles, but can be identified by their white underparts. Their white heads also have a distinctive black eyestripe that goes down the side of their faces. Eagles and ospreys frequent similar habitats and sometimes battle for food. Eagles often force osprey to drop fish that they have caught and steal them in midair.
Human habitat is sometimes an aid to the osprey. The birds happily build large stick-and-sod nests on telephone poles, channel markers, and other such locations. Artificial nesting platforms are common in areas where preservationists are working to reestablish the birds. North American osprey populations became endangered in the 1950s due to chemical pollutants such as DDT, which thinned their eggshells and hampered reproduction. Ospreys have rebounded significantly in recent decades, though they remain scarce in some locales.
Most ospreys are migratory birds that breed in the north and migrate south for the winter. They lay eggs (typically three), which both parents help to incubate. Osprey eggs don't hatch all at once, but are staggered in time so that some siblings are older and more dominant. When food is scarce these stronger birds may take it all and leave their siblings to starve.
Mom's version of nesting involved washing doors, dissecting the a/c, and even painting their bedroom the day before I was born.
1782 Nesting brown pelicans at North Breton island, Breton NWR , May 3, 2010. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS
A visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs reserve south of Scarborough, combined with lunch at Flamborough head, provided plenty of opportunity to observe the nesting Gannets, Fulmars and Kittiwakes at close quarters, whilst Shags were to be seen skimming the coastline just offshore. Bempton is the only mainland Gannet colony and presents quite a spectacle with thousands of birds rearing large grey fluffy chicks on the precipitous chalk cliffs
A small peninsula of land, marked off for the birds on the waterfront. The noise, ahhh the noise. We could barely hear ourselves talk over the cacophony of bird calls in the air.
In the midst of downtown urban Toronto, you may stumble upon this remarkable peninsula.
The Leslie St. Spit stretches out 5 km into Lake Ontario, near downtown. This is a car-free park, that is one of the city’s most unique jewels. With walking, running, and cycling trails, stunning cityscape views of the C.N. Tower, and surrounding skyscrapers, Toronto Harbour and some vegetation and wildlife, rare to find anywhere else in Canada. The Spit was originally intended to be a breakwater for harbour expansion, started 40 years ago. If you are visiting the city and looking for something interesting or living in the city and need some of nature’s R&R, give the Leslie St. Spit a tour. You will not be disappointed.
For more info visit Friends of the Spit
We visited this park on an extremely wet and moody day in the city. We watched a thunderstorm descend upon Toronto from the peninsula, completely engulfing the CN Tower and then we watched it aim for us with it’s evil stormy laser sight and drench us from head to toe, not once, but twice. A friendly shuttle driver picked us up on the way back, and I could have kissed him I was so wet and miserable. Hope you enjoy these soggy pictures.
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