July 5, 2016

July 05, 2016  •  Leave a Comment

The boys and I slept in this morning and I took my time getting out to go see the Osprey. It was roughly 11:30 and beautiful out when I first arrived. Dad was perched in a tree nearby while mom sat in the nest with the kids. Periodically she called out to him and he communicated back. I thought for sure she was asking him to bring some food back, but he didn't rush to do so.

I waited and waited and waited for roughly 3 hrs. There must have been about 4 or 5 intruders who flew by in the meantime. Some were relatively close, but one was far too close to the nest for mom's liking. She yelled at each one of them as they flew by.

As the time passed, the temps increased and it got hotter and hotter. It had gotten so hot that I started to give up on dad when he finally flew in from Lake Champlain with a nice sized Small Mouth Bass. He landed in the nest with it as mom yelled at him. Mom and the kids were all shuffled about as dad caused chaos bringing the fish in. Eventually, mom tried grabbing it from him, but he was holding on real tight. She yanked and yanked and yanked. She yanked so hard I was nervous she would fall out of the nest. Eventually he let go and she began feeding the kids. He left and landed on a post nearby. Before leaving the area, I went over and got a few shots of him as he sat and preened. I eventually left because it was far too hot for me to continue standing in the sun, so I went out in search for some shade. I found some, but didn't stay for long. 

As I was leaving I could see mom was still feeding the kids and dad was still perched on the telephone pole. He sure does a fantastic job at bringing food home to the family.


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