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Louis' strange behaviour since weeks > only appearances for mating & steeling fish...he must have a second mate (as last season) to provide. That's a real mess for Iris. Yesterday Iris and Louis returned 9:14:52... and mated. She is 25 years old, might be her last breeding season here...?


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Ferenz wrote: May 23rd, 2021, 10:46 am Louis' strange behaviour since weeks > only appearances for mating & steeling fish...he must have a second mate (as last season) to provide. That's a real mess for Iris. Yesterday Iris and Louis returned 9:14:52... and mated. She is 25 years old, might be her last breeding season here...?
Yes he has another nest with Star, over near the baseball field which is about 2 miles from the Hellgate nest. Star is brooding eggs or maybe one or two have hatched, already. Both of them were seen on the nest over there a week or more before Iris returned from migration.

Louis considers the Hellgate nest his territory so he defends it against any other Ospreys, especially males. The way it looks, Iris will never have chicks, again, as long as she and Louis both are alive because she refuses to even try to accept a different male. :(
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May 26th, 2021
Hellgate, Missoula, Montana

Today the Raven came and took all 3 eggs.
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Courtesy of Montana Osprey Project in Missoula, MT, Riverside Health Care Clinic, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Hellgate Canyon
Watch live with updates, tweets, and highlights at
http://AllAboutBirds.org/ospreys ;
Watch the cam and learn about the Montana Osprey Project at
http://hs.umt.edu/osprey/
https://youtu.be/NZX8x7B83bg


Congo, an Osprey who hatched at Dunrovin Ranch in 2018, stopped by the nest, several times on this date and we thought he was a possible suitor for Iris. Apparently he wasn't and was possibly accompanied by a female Osprey and this was possibly a nest takeover by the two of them. <sigh>

June 16th, 2021



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June 25th, 2021, Hellgate Nest, Missoula, Montana



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Iris has not been seen in quite a few weeks or at least not at the nest. Some Ospreys have been seen across the rive in trees that Iris frequents but there is no proof that any of them are her except for one of the page member's photos that she took in person on July 11th, 2021. That was the first time she has been seen in quite a while, and the only time, positively.

July 2nd, 2021



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April 1st, 2022

Hellgate Osprey Nest, Missoula, Montana

A beautiful female stranger landed on the nest, looked around for a minute, then took off. Come on Iris!


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Hellgate Canyon, MT:

https://www.facebook.com/Montana-Osprey ... 613556909/
Hi folks,
Ospreys are back in the Missoula valley!
Starr, the female at the baseball nest (just about a mile down river from the Hellgate nest),
arrived back on Wednesday morning (30 March) about 10 AM.
For several years she has been one of the first Ospreys
to return in the Missoula valley - usually about 26-30 March.
There was a goose excluder on the nest, and the good folks at Missoula Parks
and Recreation took off the goose excluder immediately.
Starr jumped right back on her nest, and also started bringing in sticks for some interior decorating.

Still hoping that Iris survived the winter and returns to the Hellgate nest.
Fingers crossed! Erick Greene and the Osprey Team
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Great relief, fantastic that she did come home again! Iris returns to Hellgate Canyon – April 7, 2022. Queen Iris, perhaps the world's oldest known breeding Osprey.

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Easter at Hellgate: 04-17-2022

Louis brought Iris a fish!



Easter Monday, 04-19-2022

Louis defends Iris and her fish against a Bald Eagle. Louis and the Eagle can be seen circling and fighting up in the sky over the bridge and around the area.


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Much going on at Hellgate over the past week or more. And also at Dunrovin.

I wlll just post the videos which have the titles and the links to the cams in the video sofware on youtube for each particular video.


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Iris laid her first egg of the year.





And much to EVERYONE's surprise, Louis showed up with a big, headless fish for her, gave it to her and proceeded to clean and work on the nest. I wonder if he's going to try to manage 2 nests this year. If he does, he will be one of very few who have been able to pull it off.
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@HellgateOsprey
18:33, 5/17 The Raven returned and lifted the egg. He pecked it and ate the contents. Another raven came & also ate some contents. The broken shell remains in the nest. #HellgateOsprey
https://forum.hancockwildlife.org/downl ... 095437&t=1

So sad to see that Iris' incubating game is over...

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Following up with what has been happening at Hellgate:

05 12 2022






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5-17-2022

AND

5-18-2022



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