Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving! May all who celebrate this day have a day of peace and bounty! I want to express my gratitude to all the people who have helped me this year in our ongoing study of this population of Ospreys, and to all those around the world who love these raptors and contribute their energies to the Ospreys well being.

May all our winged friends be safely tucked away on their wintering grounds, enjoying their own fishy feast!

New Perch!

 A big thanks to Mike Chlan at Minnesota Valley Electric Coop for helping us add a perch today to the nestpole that they errected last winter to accomodate some ospreys that had been nesting on a substation power pole. As many of you know, having a perch for the adults is an important part of nest construction. In this case I watched the adults flying across the road and dipping low over a busy road all summer and knew we had to give them a place to perch nearer to their youngsters, and to give those chicks a place to fly back to when making their early, experimental flights. I am so grateful to Mike and MVEC for their great work in helping these ospreys!

And another big thanks goes out to Marlyn Anderson for helping me build this perch!

As they say, it takes a village!