Nest 1 has been so curious this year. I’m wondering if it’s in part to an inexperienced mom. The female osprey has been very skittish, and will fly from the nest at the first sign, it seems, of anything or anyone coming anywhere near. We haven’t seen Valentino, the male, in what seems like weeks. So unusual, as last year he was so visible. I began wondering if he wasn’t hanging around IN the nest, figuring that some hatching might be going on. Wherever he has been, it’s been close by and hidden.
I tried to get some photos of the bird I saw in the nest today, keeping a good distance. When I zoomed in later on the computer, I believe I saw a little head! I think that is Valentino in the nest, possibly with a fledgling?
Is that the head of a baby peering out?
What a good dad!
Osprey Diaries 