{"id":917,"date":"2011-07-09T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T22:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=917"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:06:45","slug":"osprey-nest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Osprey Nest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the Osprey nest last weekend, but was left wondering how well things were going.<\/p>\n

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

Here the male arrives with a fish,<\/p>\n

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

… which the female took and then left the nest to eat it in the usual tree.<\/p>\n

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

A little over ten minutes later she returned with what was left of the fish. This is when you could see her attempting to feed young in the nest.<\/p>\n

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

In this photo you can just barely make out the head of a chick above a branch. The concern being I did not see the chick take any food. The female made a few attempts, but finished the fish herself.<\/p>\n

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

The female was leaving the nest unattended occasionally, but would return. It was all of this that left me wondering.<\/p>\n

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

On checking this morning there were no adults on the nest when I arrived. About half an hour later the female arrived at the nest.<\/p>\n

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

Here she is reacting to the male approaching the with a fish. After taking the fish from him she left to eat it. Not to the usual tree, but another set of pilings down stream. After that they both flew off with neither returning to the nest. So it would appear that none of the chicks have survived and the nest will be unsuccessful for a second year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to the Osprey nest last weekend, but was left wondering how well things were going. Here the male arrives with a fish, … which the female took and then left the nest to eat it in the usual tree. A little over ten minutes later she returned with what was left of the … 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-917","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\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}