{"id":2400,"date":"2012-07-07T16:08:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2012-07-07T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:08:27","slug":"a-morning-at-the-osprey-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"A Morning At The Osprey Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the encouraging visit last weekend, it was back to the Osprey nest this morning.<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A good sign on arriving was that all three chicks are still with us,<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and appear to be doing well.<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Initially the female was keeping herself busy bringing sticks to the nest,<\/p>\n

\"Osprey\"
Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and rearranging them.<\/p>\n

\"Osprey\"
Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the male arrived with a fish, she was away from the nest.<\/p>\n

\"Osprey\"
Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On her return she took the fish,<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and moved it to the other side of the nest.<\/p>\n

\"Osprey\"
Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then it was time to feed the chicks.<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At first glance this may look like hungry mouths waiting to be fed,<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… but is actually the dominant chick fighting with another. As you can see here it is actually biting the head of the other chick. Adds a whole new meaning to sibling rivalry and is quite normal. These struggles in the nest can result in the demise of the weaker chick.<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Such was not the case today with all the chicks getting fed,<\/p>\n

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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and then settling down afterwards to enjoy the rest of the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the encouraging visit last weekend, it was back to the Osprey nest this morning. A good sign on arriving was that all three chicks are still with us, … and appear to be doing well. Initially the female was keeping herself busy bringing sticks to the nest, … and rearranging them. When the male … Continue reading “A Morning At The Osprey Nest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","tag-osprey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}