{"id":2433,"date":"2012-07-14T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2012-07-14T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:10:38","slug":"osprey-nest-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"Osprey Nest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was back to the Osprey nest this morning to see how things are progressing.<\/p>\n

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All three chicks appear to be growing and doing well.<\/p>\n

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Once the sun made an appearance, the chicks would rest in the shade of mom while awaiting the next food delivery.<\/p>\n

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

This was the second food delivery of the morning since I arrived. While I took photos earlier, conditions were a little better now.<\/p>\n

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

As is usually the case, the female will take the fish from the male,<\/p>\n

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… and then he will depart. A little crowded with them all in the nest at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Then she will start feeding the chicks. In this case, the smallest one.<\/p>\n

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Once it had its fill,<\/p>\n

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… she offered the others some who ate more than the little one at the earlier feeding.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to digest and and enjoy the morning. I continued to watch a little longer and there was another food delivery as I was packing up the gear in preparation to leave. Three hungry mouths will keep the adults busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was back to the Osprey nest this morning to see how things are progressing. All three chicks appear to be growing and doing well. Once the sun made an appearance, the chicks would rest in the shade of mom while awaiting the next food delivery. This was the second food delivery of the morning … Continue reading “Osprey Nest Update”<\/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-2433","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\/2433","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=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}