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Pompano
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Good osprey projects
Some years back, volunteers from the Mulege area helped to erect these nesting frames atop some of the power line poles along the highway. Close to
the sea.
This relieves some of the stress to both the osprey and the power supply!
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Oso
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Thanks all, I had no idea they were so widespread as I've only seen them on the coast before. I'm pretty sure it was a catfish it was eating.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
I'm pretty sure it was a catfish it was eating. |
Interesting - is the water in that canal pretty shallow?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Roberto
| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
I'm pretty sure it was a catfish it was eating. |
Interesting - is the water in that canal pretty shallow? |
Very shallow, sometimes dry, never more than 3 ft.
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This one was taken in a parking lot in Guererro Negro.
Dad with a fresh catch for mom and babies.
These birds, like coyotes thrive in proximity to humans. This nest was 100 feet from a busy street and a large parking lot. In Mission Bay (San
Diego) one has even built a nest on top of a sail boat mast in a marina.
[Edited on 2-29-2008 by tripledigitken]
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Wounded Osprey
Here is my son, Alex, with a wounded osprey that we were transporting to the animal hospital in Guerrero Negro. Quite an experience to be that close
to such a wild spirit.
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...& a closeup...
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tripledigitken
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Did the bird recover?
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On the way to Lopez Mateos from Insurgentes, they have built wood cross beams on every fifth electric pole and every platform had an Osprey nest built
on it.
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We once had an interesting event concerning 2 young osprey. I hope I have not posted about this before.
A good friend and neighbor, David, was having coffee with me on our patio in Conception Bay one morning about 10-12 years ago. David is long-time
co-director of NOLS, which is a very environment-concerned organization and have been our good neighbors for a couple decades.
As we yakked we noticed a figure walking towards us on the seawall, coming from Coyote's camping beach. It looked like he had a bag in each hand.
The figure turned out to be a young man who came over to us and began his tale. He had a young osprey in each bag...which he offered to us for sale.
The osprey did not yet have their flight feathers fully developed, but were close. He said he had 'found' them in the rocks of the mountain just east
of Coyote Bay.
Well, both David and I knew exactly where these fledglings had come from...because we were well aware of the osprey nest situated on a high rock
overlooking that part of our bay. As the young man continued his sales pitch, we got pretty angry. Trying to think of the right phrase, but failing,
I was sputtering some pretty bad cuss words...but then David said in his most lethal and perfect Spanish that the 'thief' had better take those osprey
youngsters back immediately to the nest he had 'stolen' them from or David would go immediately to the police and turn him in for a very major crime.
The lad's face went a little gray as he did an immediate turn-about to return down the beach. With my binoculars, we watched as he climbed the rocks
and took the young birds from the bags and placed them back in the nest. The adults had been sitting on our bay's dead tree overlook all this time
and finally returned after the youth had left. They continued to care for thier young throughout the rest of the nesting season.
Hopefully nobody else has been offered fledglings for sale since.
p.s. I took that young man's photo that day with the bags of osprey...and have it in my archives....just in case.
[Edited on 3-1-2008 by Pompano]
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Fishing must be good in the irrigation ditch below the house. Our visitor was back again today.
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Osprey Nest
This nest is positioned right at the junction of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers in British Columbia and is the home of the osprey with the salmon I
posted earlier. A lot of the power poles that are close to the river around here have covers to keep the ospreys from building nests on them. A
special post was put up for this pair. This pic was taken a couple of years ago, I don't think they're back north yet this year. Probably still in
Mexico...
Ken, that's a great closeup of the nest in Guerrero Negro!
The osprey we took to the hospital? I don't know how it fared. We dropped the bird off on the way out of town (May, 2002) and haven't been back
since Shari may know. I seem to remember being told that it had recovered, but
that may be just wishful thinking.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Fishing must be good in the irrigation ditch below the house. Our visitor was back again today. |
How long you figure before the "animal lady" has it perched in the back yard? 
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Fishing must be good in the irrigation ditch below the house. Our visitor was back again today. |
How long you figure before the "animal lady" has it perched in the back yard? |
Luckily, she doesn't like fish.
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One fishing near TS today - that's quite a mouthful...
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Skipjack Joe
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Yes, she's very ambitious.
That should feed the kiddies for about a week.
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Here's a little known fact...Osprey and Great Blue Herons are the only birds found around the globe...kinda cool, huh....and...have you ever noticed
that when an osprey catches it's prey, it always arranges it so it's pointing in the direction it's flying, unlike other birds of prey, like an eagle
for instance...We have several osprey nests right across the river from us here in mulege so are able to watch them hunt every morning from the front
porch....fun!
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Skipjack Joe
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Also, barn swallow.
http://www.oiseaux.net/birds/distribution/barn.swallow.html
But Mr. Hobbs could have told you that.
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Thanks for the coffee splurter, Igor. I needed that!
Nena
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Skipjack,
Interesting information. Looks like Kiwi's are hard to get along with, if you are a Barn Swallow.
Ken
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