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Osprey delivery service

March 21, 2021 by Mike Powell

Some of the newly-returned Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge were busy on Friday building or renovating their nests. In past years I have seen ospreys make nests in a wide range of locations, both natural as well as man-made. This osprey was ferrying out sticks to a nest on a distant channel marker in the bay, where its mate waited patiently for each new delivery.

Posted in Birds, Nature, Photography, spring, wildlife | Tagged Canon 50D, Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Osprey, osprey in action, osprey nest, Pandion haliaetus, Tamron 150-600mm, Woodbridge VA | 8 Comments

8 Responses

on March 21, 2021 at 9:06 am | Reply Reed Andariese

Nice Mike! Always fun to photograph Ospreys!
- on March 22, 2021 at 6:10 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks, Reed. The ospreys will be with us for quite a while now, so I am sure that I will have a lot more photo opportunities with them in the upcoming months.
on March 21, 2021 at 3:58 pm | Reply mvschulze

Great capture of the home building !
- on March 22, 2021 at 6:06 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks.
on March 21, 2021 at 6:29 pm | Reply sv-anui.com

I love ospreys. We often see them nesting on channel markers.
- on March 22, 2021 at 6:09 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  I guess it is not surprising to hear that, Chris, given how often you probably see channel markers. It seems like the markers need to be pretty big to accommodate the ospreys–this marker had a latter on the side of it.
on March 21, 2021 at 7:08 pm | Reply Molly Lin Dutina

Cooperation for certain!
- on March 22, 2021 at 6:06 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  I really like how the bird couples cooperate in building the nests and later on sitting on the eggs.