Bird Watching: The 2010 Osprey season heats up, 1 by MargaretK

MargaretK wrote:
Not much to report from this afternoon. More mating and Dad brought a small stick and a nice big clump of weed. It clouded over just when the lighting is usually at its best. Big Hook is rarely off the nest now.

Not really anything to show you, but I have cropped this shot to show the difference in Dad and Big Hook's eye colours. Big Hook is the bird at the back, facing the left of the screen. Our Ospreys certainly don't seem to have the bright yellow (adult) and bright orange (juveniles) irises of the northern hemisphere birds and the dark ring around the eyes doesn't seem as pronounced.