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	Live camera showing a closeup of the nest, and a second feed showing a bigger view. Fascinating.		Attachments: Osprey Cam

Dennis Scearce - Apr 16,2019 Viewers | Reply


	This is fascinating. I'm spending too much time just watching. Really cool if you expand it to full screen.


	Check out the archives. I love this sequence, he brings her a hat and you can imagine the conversation going something like: WTF is this? I thought you'd like something pretty to keep the sun off. I'm a bird. I don't wear hats. Just try it. Look. It's pretty. (she grabs it, takes off, drops it in the water.) MEN!!		Attachments: I brought you a hat

Paul Sanchez - Apr 29,2019 Viewers | Reply


	Steve, that is funny!

Carr, Frank - Apr 29,2019 Viewers | Reply


	Pretty neat. Is that Alcatraz in the background? Here's one from the East Coast, Chesapeake Bay to be exact. This one started maybe 15 years ago by a couple of old friends. It grew and the Chesapeake Conservancy asked to become a sponsor. My friend upgraded from his original video to their home kitchen VCR to what is now a much more elaborate setup, available day or night to unlimited Internet users. These E coast Osprey return from their separate winter vacations on St. Paddy's Day +/- 1 or 2. https://explore.org/livecams/ospreys/osprey-cam-chesapeake-conservancy		Attachments: Chesapeake Bay Osprey


	No, the nest is at Point Richmond, you're looking at Brooks Island Regional Preserve. The ship is the S.S. Red Oak Victory, a restored WW II Victory Ship. (Yeah, I didn't know there were Victory ships, either, I had only heard about Liberty ships.)		Attachments: Red Oak Victory

Ken Leonard - Apr 30,2019 Viewers | Reply


	About 2000 Liberty ships built, about 500 victory ships built. Liberty cruise =10-11 knots vs 15 for victory. Victory didn't have hull cracking issues the Liberty did. Victory didn't get built until later in the war. About same displacement.


	They've hatched.


	3 chicks, unfortunately one named Gamma passed last night during an unseasonable storm in the SF Bay Area.

Don Maxwell - May 17,2019 Viewers | Reply


	Dead chicks are hard on humans, Steve. But who knows how the birds react. Last year the third-born (Alpha, Beta, Gamma) of "our" chicks died in the night and the parents couldn't get it completely out of the nest. It somehow got tangled in between some sticks and the nestbox. It seemed ghastly to us, but in a day or so the birds seemed to stop noticing it. The carcass was there for about two months, until after the last chick had fledged and I was able to get up there with a ladder and knock it into the river. The mom had flown south by then, but Dad was still hanging around, teaching the remaining kids how to fish better and how to build nests. (Every year dad and kids disassemble that year's nest before heading for the Caribbean. I suspect that's for both hygiene and instruction.) Anyway, the "fortune" in "unfortunately" probably means strengthening of the flock given the current environmental conditions. It does for us humans too, of course, only we don't like to think about that.


	First solo by the male, female let him be the wind dummy.		Attachments: First solo


	Just a short hop, but so were the Wright Brothers		Attachments: First solo


	I'm a grown up bird now! The hell you are. Go back to your room now. There is still so much for you to learn.		Attachments: 1561942368-1561942066921

Don Maxwell - Jul 04,2019 Viewers | Reply


	A month ago "our" ospreys had two chicks in the nest, over here near Richmond VA, but only one made it to flight stage. The other vanished--dead and tossed in the river, eaten, who knows. A few days ago a sudden squall blew the survivor into the air, probably a week or so early, but it managed to fly to a nearby tree, where it perched until the storm was over, while a parent urged it to do something. You can hear the parent yelling in the background of the video. The fledgling seems nervous. Or excited. Or delighted. I don't really know how to read these birds.		Attachments: FirstPerch

Don Maxwell - Jul 04,2019 Viewers | Reply


	Then it flew back to the nest, and a parent joined it a few minutes later.		Attachments: ParentLanding

Don Maxwell - Jul 04,2019 Viewers | Reply


	Recently, the fledgling's favorite perch has been on top of the windsock. I keep saying "it" because I can't tell the sexes apart unless there's one of each close together. The females are larger. The males are shyer of humans. The fledglings have mottled feathers--brown and white--but in a few months they look like real grown-ups, with large areas of brown or white, no mottling. This young'un has orange eyes. Both of its parents' eyes are yellowish.		Attachments: IMG 6160-BirdSock


	Awesome, Don. I think the females have a little brown spotted necklace of markings around their necks.

Eric Batterman - Jul 28,2019 Viewers | Reply


	Barnegat light(NJ) Ospreys just fledged..		Attachments: NJ Ospreys

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