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

MargaretK wrote:
I spent a couple of hours at the nest this afternoon. Dad was sitting on the egg/s and Big Hook was standing close by when I first got there. He appears to absolutely relish sitting, occasionally pulling in bits of weed from the perimeter of the nest cup and rearranging it and dozing on and off. Big Hook flew down to one of the low branches, but eventually decided it was her turn to sit and flew back to the nest. Dad flew off over to the other side of the bay and returned an hour later to his branch on the tree outside Madame X's house with a fish, where he proceeded to eat it. I stuck around until the nest was coming into shadow, but he hadn't brought the fish to her. There's some plastic in the nest, which is a bit of a worry. I hope they discard it.

Here's Big Hook arriving back at the nest before the changing of the guard.