Life is so interesting in the osprey world….and I am always so curious. Today I was checking nests and went to this cell tower where ospreys have nested sucessfully for several years. Earlier in the spring when I visited for the first time, they were not there! The nest was intact, but there were two crows ( ravens!)on the tower. I quickly found the ospreys had moved a short distance away and had built a new nest on a large transmission tower. I checked them, incubating, all is well. Then I got curious…..why did they move? They had successfully fledged chicks last year…..and the nest seemed fine. So I went back there to look again…..I looked from all angles. There was still a crow perched on top….but seriously, ospreys are not afraid of crows! There was nothing in the osprey nest. Hmmmmmm. I looked a little closer and started to notice movement….and I realized the crows are nesting on the cell tower, but not IN the ospreys nest, but below it in kind of a weird spot! There looked like there were three crows in there! The adult was perched above and then she finally did not down into the nest, and then flew out….but I was wondering g how those chicks were gonna fledge out of there! It was hard to get a photo cause they are black! I watched this situation for way too long….
I have seen crows nesting normally in a pine tree….and in all my years I have never seen anything like this. Maybe it’s common….i dont know. But apparently the crows scared the ospreys off!First photo is the new osprey neat and then is the photo of the cell tower, with the osprey nest visible and the crow nest below it is circled in red. I notice so many interesting things…..
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