Tags: osprey
Wings Above The Nest

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.
Bi-Weekley Challenge - Critters

I'm always amazed at what Ospreys can land on Balance
One Month Old
On The Nest
Cooling Off On A Hot Day

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
Over The Bay, Through The Marsh, Nothing But Nest
Birding In The Wild

You dont find many Osprey in this kind of setting.
Perfect Landing

Osprey landing on it's nesting platform Oceanville, New Jersey... Perfect Landing
Fun With Nature
BIrding In The Wild
Birding In The Wild
Nature - On The Wing
Osprey On A Stick
63 Inch Wing Span
Osprey Family

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

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!!
Nature Center Part 3

Part 3 of my Nature Center outing:
Thanks for looking and hope you enjoyed my hike! Have a great weekend!
Allegheny camping 2008 part 1, Animals that I saw (sorry no bear) ;(

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)
Nature Wild - From The Cape


