Bird Watching: Raising Aussie Osprey #9, 1 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
I've heard that a dead, banded osprey which was blind in one eye was found on the beach at Rockingham, which is on the mainland and looks out to Garden Island. (Another report was that it was found on the river embankment a few km upstream from "our" nest). I contacted the Australian Bird and Bat Banding authority in Canberra, but the finding certainly wasn't reported to them. I'm still trying to follow that up. If it was Old Ma Osprey, she was approximately 45km as the crow flies from her patch of the Swan River and was trying to make her way back to where she was hatched.