Osprey Nests in North America

[Janne+Ais]

Again this overflow in my eyes...

[Kukelke]

More about Little (now big) Nel's release, including a neat video of the event, from the OWL facebook:

Nel is Wild and Free!

Today Nel was released back to the wild in Nelson B.C. The release was absolutely beautiful, and moreover; successful! Not only will Nel have a steady supply of Kokanee fish, she was already joined by two other Osprey in the area. We hope you enjoy this little video, and again, thank you for all you support!

Sincerely,
The O.W.L Gang


Nel the Osprey is released back to Nelson B.C
This is a little video put together today of Nel the Osprey. Today, she was released back to the wild, and with great success. Thank you to everyone involved...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/OWL-Orph ... 2845544617

Godspeed Nel! Fly high, strengthen your wings, learn your home range, stay safe, and bon voyage when you migrate. May you never lack fish and return to breed for many years to come, as that is your natural role.

[lianaliesma]

[Kukelke]

The newspaper article on Nel's release in the wild has been updated with a good deal of extra information about the release, her osprey foster mum, another osprey from the Nelson area recently brought to the O.W.L. rehab centre, etc:

http://www.nelsonstar.com/news/274955721.html


Oh, and Nel's gender has finally been determined. Nel is a female after all.

[Kukelke]

I discovered a new osprey cam in Florida, the Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina Osprey Nest camera, located in the Ft Myers area of South-West Florida:

Camera link: http://pinkshellosprey.click2stream.com/


This could be a nice alternative for the winter months, because some ospreys in southern parts of Florida don't migrate but stay all year round. This year their chicks hatched at March 1st and 2nd, and that could indicate that the pair of ospreys on this nest are part of the non-migratory population there.
The camera has night vision too.

The female is called Lucy, and the male listens to the name Ricky.

Right now Lucy is perched on the nesting platform:





More info I found on this nest:

Timeline:

October 2013- the ospreys return to the new nest, adding branches
January 2014- osprey nest complete
January 22, 2014- first egg in nest
January 25, 2014- egg #2 and #3 in nest
February 28, 2014- osprey couple is named Ricky and Lucy
March 1, 2014- egg #1 hatched
March 2, 2014- egg #2 hatched

https://www.facebook.com/ospreynestpinkshellbeachresort

[Kukelke]

Yesterday two adults (Ricky and Lucy most likely) were perched on the nest at Pink Shell Beach in Florida:



Nestcam link: http://pinkshellosprey.click2stream.com/

[Kukelke]

September 22

Pink Shell osprey nest today:







Camera link: http://pinkshellosprey.click2stream.com/

[macdoum]

Osprey nest in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone ;

http://urbanhawks.blogs.com/urban_hawks ... stone.html

The video is dated 2009.

More recent video Sept 2013;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyn4Go-xdk

[macko50]

Pink Shell osprey nest

There are two eggs in the nest.

http://pinkshell.com/fort-myers-beach-ospreycam/

[macko50]

Pink Shell osprey nest 28.01.2015.

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[Uta]

02/27/15 Pink Shell osprey nest

Fish delivery. This is same fish from 12:10
The fish fly in, the fish fly out. The Ospreys are playing a fish game with a rest of fish.
The name on the facebook page for the fermale is Lucy and the male is Ricky.
The lege date for the egg 1 was the 22.Januar and for egg 2 25.Januar.
So in the next days is hatching time.
12:10

14:09

[Uta]

03/01/15

At 17:15 the first chick is hatched on Pink Shell


17:32 Ricky visited his family and brought a rest fish


18:33 The chick is now full out of the eggshell


18:41

[Uta]

03/02/015 Grat news from Pink shell Nest Florida.
At 18:42 Florida time the second and last chick is hatched now. One day only after the first chick.
Congratulation Mum Lucy and Dad Ricky.



16:38 Ricky deliver a small living fish


16:46


16:48 Mum starts feeding the little one.

[Uta]

03/03/15 10:24-10:50 Pink Shell, Florida

Lucy starts a perfect feeding today.
Boa,in the night, she was fishing by herself and feed the chicks.
She is a wonderful Mum, fishing at night for the chicks, wonderful.







Here the picture from Julia Rain, she was night watching and have taken this pictures. Thank`s

[Uta]

03/19/15 Pink Shell/Florida

All is well in the Pink Shell Nest in Florida. The chicks are growing very well.
It is only one day between hatching this both but good to see on the fether growing, that a day is a long time.

11:55 Florida Time Ricky deliver a living fish for his family


11:56


12:09 Mum Lucy is feeding the chicks


15:04 They are alone for a while. Chick#1 the oldest is right and chick#2 the youngest is left. I`m always looking for better markers.The ID is for the moment only, that chick#1 have a wide stripe from the neck to the tail as chick#2 and the fether growing.

[Malewitsch]

[Malewitsch]

[Uta]

update from the Pink Shell nest, Florida

04-08-15 14:20
The Pink Shell chicks now over a month old.
Both looking wonderful and the feathern growing very well.

[Uta]

Here are a link to a other nest in Maryland.
This is the nest from Audrey and a "new" Tom wich is in the mold now.
The first male this year was desplaced on April 1st by this new Tom.Over the last years partner Tom from Audrey is getting no information.

http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/Osprey-Cam

03-16-15 The new platform for the nest.They build every year a new nest.The old Platform was rotten over the winter

04-02-15 the new male from Audrey


This is a pict. from today 04-08-15

[Uta]

Great news from Chesapeake Conservancy in Maryland
Yesterday, April 12th in the evening at 18:19,Audrey have laid her first egg. I have never seen a fermale was laid a egg so fast.
Congratulation Audrey and Tom for the first egg.

View of the first egg


07:01
This morning,Tom love breeding and Audrey have let him


07:38


07:40