Bird Watching: Growing in an Osprey's Garden #8, 1 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
Thank you all, once again.

Linth, you're right about being able to do it all again next season. At the nest this afternoon, I was thinking that even though things have quietened down at the moment and there isn't much activity, it will only be another 4 or 5 months until (hopefully) Dad and Big Hook will start to re-establish their claim to the nest. At the end of last season, after Old Ma was no longer around, it was less than 4 weeks before Dad and Big Hook started bonding. I'll be in a better position this year to be able to go to the nest during winter to capture the courtship.

Nanny, because of the terrain the the number of trees in the area, the in flight shots are really difficult to get. Typically there is about one second's warning that a bird is going to emerge from behind a tree to land, either on the nest itself, on one of the nest tree branches, or on the pole branch. I think that it's because we wait for so long for any sign of activity, that we'll gladly click away when a static osprey so much as blinks. LOL.

Lin, I tend not to print images. I'll do so to give to friends, but I don't even have my printer set up any longer. I was given a gift to have a print, or even a several prints done professionally and to then have them framed. I'm still trying to decide which images to use. I think one of the ones of Old Ma and Aussie from last season will be what I choose. I struggled with the choice for a good long while, because it still stirs up some pretty intense emotions when I look at some of those shots, but what happened with Old Ma, Aussie and Dad is the essence of what I'm writing about, so I am now almost comfortable enough to do so without feeling voyeuristic.

I didn't go to the nest the last two days because of the heat, but managed a couple of hours there this afternoon. Harmony spent a lot of time dozing and yawning, but as usual, when the nest was in dappled shadow, Big Hook brought a headless fish. Just three shots which show Harmony's enthusiasm at receiving a meal.