Osprey Feeding Time

[Trader]

This was taken today on an overcast day. A few years ago a family of Osprey was relocated to a man made pole (about 40 feet tall) about a mile from where I live. Every year the Osprey come back to the nest to have and raise their young. I don't know where they go the rest of the year but they are not here. This is the first year that I have been able to get close enough to the nest to get these shots. The mother is in the middle tearing apart some meat and feeding it to the babies on her left and right.

Notice the 'man made' platform that the nest was moved to.




The baby on the left was by far the noisiest of them all.




Mom is handing the baby a piece of meat she just ripped off.




There are a few more shots on my Flickr site if you are interested. Thanks for looking.

[bethard728]

Those are neat! We see eagles around here in the winter and it was a few years before I ever got any good pics of them. They are so cool to watch.

[FDCPR]

Nice captures with a lot of interesting actions going on. It's amazing mom is still offering to feed them, the babies look pretty big. We get a few here, but I've never seen a nest or had a photo op. Thanks for sharing.

Fred