Juvenile Osprey
Mar 9, 2012 19:49:41 #
We stopped at a small park called " Sawgrass" in St Pete, Florida today and found this Juvenile Osprey. The shot of the nest is a heavy crop [40%] of a nest on Tierra Verde on the way out to Ft. DeSoto Park. The nest is huge. I figured they must have installed a storm cellar in case of bad weather.
Mar 9, 2012 19:53:59 #
irrigator wrote:
We stopped at a small park called " Sawgrass" in St Pete, Florida today and found this Juvenile Osprey. The shot of the nest is a heavy crop [40%] of a nest on Tierra Verde on the way out to Ft. DeSoto Park. The nest is huge. I figured they must have installed a storm cellar in case of bad weather.
Great shots. Very nice colors on the Juvi.
Mar 9, 2012 20:14:39 #
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Mar 9, 2012 20:34:19 #
Very nice photos! The nests get used year after year and material gets added each year so they can get very big if the structure supporting them can carry it.
Mar 9, 2012 20:38:55 #
The one on Pactola Lake was a big one what the Forest Service and the power Company did was build a platform for them to put the nest on it worked they are still using it and it is a big one.
Mar 9, 2012 21:11:01 #
Mar 9, 2012 21:24:39 #
birdpix wrote:
Very nice photos! The nests get used year after year and material gets added each year so they can get very big if the structure supporting them can carry it.
We figured something like that. I knew they didn't build it in one season.
Mar 9, 2012 21:37:40 #
irrigator wrote:
We stopped at a small park called " Sawgrass" in St Pete, Florida today and found this Juvenile Osprey. The shot of the nest is a heavy crop [40%] of a nest on Tierra Verde on the way out to Ft. DeSoto Park. The nest is huge. I figured they must have installed a storm cellar in case of bad weather.
Great shots. I use to go to sawgrass often when I lived in St. Pete
Mar 9, 2012 21:48:30 #
This guy was diving into the water and getting sticks. He would take them back to the tree and then figure out they were not fish and drop them on the ground. Not the smartest egg to come out of the nest I'm guessing.
Not the greatest shot but here he is with one of his stick/fish.
Mar 9, 2012 22:10:14 #
irrigator wrote:
This guy was diving into the water and getting sticks. He would take them back to the tree and then figure out they were not fish and drop them on the ground. Not the smartest egg to come out of the nest I'm guessing.
gotta learn the hard way sometimes
Mar 9, 2012 22:22:13 #
gregoryd45 wrote:
gotta learn the hard way sometimes
irrigator wrote:
This guy was diving into the water and getting sticks. He would take them back to the tree and then figure out they were not fish and drop them on the ground. Not the smartest egg to come out of the nest I'm guessing.
gotta learn the hard way sometimes
I could almost see his parents in the tree shaking their heads.
Mar 9, 2012 22:35:33 #
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