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JUST heard, from a 'neighbor' whom I don't know, that there ARE OSPREYs here!!! (Original Post) elleng Mar 2024 OP
My brother came to visit from up north. cachukis Mar 2024 #1
WOW! elleng Mar 2024 #2
We sold the big house, with a pond, nearby. cachukis Mar 2024 #3
We have a family that comes every year BittyJenkins Mar 2024 #4
Yes, it is so wonderful to hear them! elleng Mar 2024 #5
How beautiful! BittyJenkins Mar 2024 #7
admril, there be ospreys here . AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #6

cachukis

(2,739 posts)
1. My brother came to visit from up north.
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 08:51 PM
Mar 2024

On the golf course yesterday, an osprey circled the pond behind my friend. I pointed it out just before it dived into the water and extracted a catfish.
I told my brother I paid the osprey for the performance.
Today, across the pond from my condo, an osprey settled on an old cypress branch. His weight dislodged the branch, and from my recliner, I watched his fall for a second and a half, and his relaxing of talons to release the branch. He then flew over my window.
The day before my brother flew in, a pileated woodpecker, meandered up a palm tree outside my patio.
I used to get out my camera, but the bird action out my window is idyllic.
We have several osprey, sand hill cranes, wood storks, hooded mergansers, great blue herons, yellow crested night herons, spoonbills, black tipped storks, egrets, green herons, ibises, muscoveys, a panoply of ducks that visit our pond surrounded by cypress, various palms, oaks, magnolias and vegetation that I don't know the names.
This. In Tampa.

cachukis

(2,739 posts)
3. We sold the big house, with a pond, nearby.
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 09:10 PM
Mar 2024

Many of our birds show up here, as well. We waited two and a half years to find a first floor with a view like we had.
We have had fifty storks waiting around for instructions as to where they had to deliver their babies. So cool to watch them depart.
The sand hills raised a youngster and they fly to a spot out my window. I think they are the same pair who used to walk around my house.
Very lucky to have these friends.

BittyJenkins

(590 posts)
4. We have a family that comes every year
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 09:23 PM
Mar 2024

To have their babes and they just returned last week. It is so wonderful to hear them. They are beautiful.

elleng

(136,780 posts)
5. Yes, it is so wonderful to hear them!
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 09:45 PM
Mar 2024

I/we've had such a family here too! Here's an 'old' pic of the adults, above my yard, 2017:

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