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Osprey are native to Long Island and are making a come back. They never ceases to amaze me!
Osprey are native to Long Island and are making a come back. They never ceases to amaze me!
On my street I photographed two pairs of adult Osprey during their seasonal mating cycles.
On my street I photographed two pairs of adult Osprey during their seasonal mating cycles.
The first pair is below.
The first pair is below.
Early in the mating cycle I capture the Osprey circling above me. THey are impressive raptors.
They make flight look easy as they pass above hunting for food and generally observe what's going on in their territories.
This Osprey soared above me a couple of times, and watched me, as I watch him.
We connected as his head is crooked down to get a better look, and see who am I.
They feed on fish and live on the water coastal areas. This trip was spent looks for nesting wood.
With wings spread you can see individual birds identify markings.
The bird finished observing sails off possibly to hunt more wood.
Later in the month I spotted their nest built in a dead tree rather than on a man made platform. I shot this photo from my yard of the nest, 1/4 mile away.
The female Osprey sits on her nest and noticed an approaching bird..
She flaps her wings warning an intruder to stay away. That worked the bird notice the black spot above her wing as the interloper leaves.
On a block that had none till four years ago the second pair is located 4/10ths of a mile from the first pair.
On a block that had none till four years ago the second pair is located 4/10ths of a mile from the first pair.
Second Osprey nest of four on the Creek.
Egret's and Osprey share the early morning sky on the Creek.
The Osprey watches her three downey chicks with brown cheeks.
For a third shoot this summer I visited the North Shore of Long Island.
For a third shoot this summer I visited the North Shore of Long Island.
I took an afternoon trip to the Lloyd's Neck, Long Island's North Shore to shoot Eagles known to be nesting in Center Port. Insead I found an abundance,of Osprey Nests, triple of what I had seen the year before. Shooting began around 4:30 in the afternoon after a fleeting throundr storm, when the birds returned to their nest. Osprey once endangered motivating a group of Stony Brook residents to found the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) , which took the US government to court, and won their case to cease the pesticide spraying of DDT on half of the birds. The bird eggs frail, cracked under the during the nesting period. when Osprey nested. . EDF changed the law and continues to fight on protecting environmental diversity. The birds I saw were a result fo the prolonged bann.
The first of the four platforms and or , nests I shot that day.
Up the road this bird was very interested in me. It is seated ia top the metal platform nest.
The four birds in the nest , three fledglings and an adult, all watch me as I shot this family portrait
The birds looks like a fledgling with it's brown feathers. The nest is in a dead tree.
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