Female Osprey landing on her nest. Notice that she keeps her talons tightly closed when landing so she doesn't injure her chicks in the nest.

 Wings Above The Nest 

I'm always amazed at what Ospreys can land on  Balance 

Osprey Chick 

Osprey 

 Dee and I spent the morning watching one of our favorite Osprey Nest here in New Jersey. This nest has three, 3 week old chicks in it and the female Osprey was working real hard at keeping her chicks cool on a very hot & humid day. The Female Osprey was flapping her wings to fan her chicks and she was using her wings like an umbrella to shade them from the hot sun. After all this work the female Osprey really needed to cool herself down. She took off from the nest and dove into the cool water, then she flew right back to her nest.  It was really amazing watching this female Osprey careing for her young... Cooling Off 

Nothing But Nest 

You dont find many  Osprey in this kind of setting.

Osprey landing on it's nesting platform Oceanville, New Jersey... Perfect Landing 

No Ospreys were harmed in the capture of this image.

 Headless Osprey....(:^)  

 Osprey Nest 

 Osprey 

Osprey

 Ospery On A Stick 

Osprey   

One of the Ospreys nesting platforms at the Brig aka Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. Osprey Family 

Osprey's Nest , Male Osprey is on the left, female on the right... True Love

 NATURE RULES!!!

Vanishing Texas River Cruise helps Last Chance Forever/Birds of Prey Conservancy release raptors back into the wild after rehabilitaion. I was privaliged to be able go see 5 of these birds released! A bunch of pictures so I will break em up in different post since I lost my heart!!

Barn Owl

Bonus capture - Osprey w/dinner

Osprey w/dinner - 2nd shot

Part 3 of my Nature Center outing:

Wren

Osprey

Dead Tree

White Throated Sparrow

 Another Deer Shot

Thanks for looking and hope you enjoyed my hike!  Have a great weekend!

Hurray, I can make a slideshow and put it in my story!!!!! Thank you Cory for fixing that. ;)

OK, thats out of the way, Now about the story.

My family and I went on our yearly camping trip to Allegheny state park and I have many photos to share. But I will try to keep it simple and in Parts. This first post is some of the animals that I got shots of. And just to let you know I seemed to become camera Stupid on the trip. I left some settings on my camera that I should have not used and when I got home to down load them I had to fix some of the photos. did my best but not trying to be a pro, just want to share.I put them into slideshows to make it less cluttered. The first slideshow is of birds, woodchucks, deer and a toad. Camping 2008  

The last 2 bird shots are unknown to me so if anyone can identify them please do.

The second is small but is the Osprey that nest near the lake we go to swim at. They are there every year. This year there were 3 Young Osprey and they were fun to watch. This is where my bad setting became a problem. the back ground was way too over exposed and I did my best to make it better. these are the only two that I am willing to show.  camping 2008_2  Also a unknown moth.

Enjoy and all comments welcome. ;)

(next Camping part 2, the scenic view)

Osprey