Fighting Osprey
I recently came across this old image of mine and had to share the story with everyone. RTPI President Twan Leenders and I captured this injured female Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) on June 28, 2010 after she was reported by concerned citizens as unable to fly on Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Pleasure Beach near her nest site. She had dislocated her left shoulder when being battered by a tornadic supercell thunderstorm a couple days earlier. The storm moved over the barrier beach after a tornado had touched down in the city minutes earlier. She was successfully rehabilitated and later...
Read MoreOsprey (Pandion haliaetus) by Scott Kruitbosch
It’s time for some heavy lifting and hauling as Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) are working hard at building nests. That’s a sizable stick making for some fast flapping…
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