Bird Watching: Growing in an Osprey's garden #4, 1 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
Dad went and alighted on the left branch. Again note that strange wet stuff that falls from the sky on rare occasions. He may go for brief flights whilst the chick is fed, but he waits with increasing impatience, knowing that when Big Hook has finished feeding the chick and herself, she'll go for a longer flight and often a bath, giving him his turn to be on the nest. It usually takes at least 45 minutes for a feed to be completed, with Big Hook making different sounds to the chick at different stages of the feed. I've noticed that when she first starts to feed it, there is little or no sound, then, as the chick starts to fill up she makes these soft little "wip, wip, wip" sounds which then change to something I can't yet describe. I'll concentrate on that second sound when I next see the chick being fed.