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Originally Posted by Masterlu
Amazing!  |
thanks, once it warms up and dries out here ill get out for some more photos...wont be long before the osprey are back.
This was taken about 3 miles from my home. The one being chased off its perch is a juvenile; their eyes are red when born and transition to yellow after time (the one on the yardarm is an adult, with yellow eyes). When brooding season is over the parent osprey induce their fledglings to leave the nest by pulling out all the down, moss and other soft material, leaving a prickly web of sticks and branches.
The fledglings will eventually take their first flight and perch somewhere close to rest and decide if they wanna fly again. The parents will harass them until they fly off, never to return.
I don't have any children, but I think this is how I'd handle parenting.