Independant pole with wooden platform. Installed by Barb Walker, Clearwater Audubon Society. This osprey still rebuilds in his first location but uses the platform for mating and incubating. This pair has not yet produced young. They have failed for
3/21/13
The lone female is still sitting on the nest and rotating. I did not hear many vocalizations from her today. This morning there were 6 males around and 1 roseate spoonbill, so the eggs and hatchlings must be girls. :) I did not see another osprey drop off any thing but there was a branch added to the side of the nest which I think has already fallen. The red-shouldered hawk that was in the osprey platform early in the season was also around. There are vultures in that area but it has improved over the last couple of years. I think they caused the ospreys to fail in the past. I have seen several vulture osprey confrontations in this area as well. Usually it is because something has been killed on the road by the osprey nest and the osprey perceives the vultures as a threat to the nest.
On 3/18 the male was hit by a car and killed as of 3/19 the female is still sitting there incubating. An osprey from another nest 400 yards away buzzed her. We released a male that came from the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in the direct vicinity of the nest. He's still hanging around the vicinity but as far as them hooking up tomorrow is another day baby.
The female is in an incubation position. She gets up about every 20 minutes and rotates. She looked hot and hungry. We don't know how long she will sit there but we'll post it here.
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