Bird Watching: Raising Aussie Osprey #7, 1 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
Glad you've found Aussie's life story interesting, Wendy and welcome.

Thanks everyone for your ongoing interest. I had a look at the poor quality video I was taking with my P & S this morning and it's such a shame I didn't have the still camera trained on them, but I thought the lighting was too dull to capture anything.

Burn, I don't know if Mum was trying to teach her something. My DH thinks that's possibly what was going on. I hope you and he are right. I was tending to think a little more pessimistically that maybe Mum's preparedness to do battle over the fish was that she isn't getting enough to eat from her own fishing expeditions and was willing to take food from her kid to satisfy her own needs. This flies in the face of everything I've observed over the past three months, where Mum has so patiently and diligently fed the little one and not until Aussie had had her fill did she contemplate having a single morsel for herself. If Aussie subsequently wanted more whilst she was having a feed herself, she would immediately stop and recommence feeding the chick.

I took this shot before the fight started. I love it when I'm able to get the two of them together like this.

This message was edited Jan 22, 2009 3:16 PM