These images are taken with a 6 MegaPixel Olympus SP-500 UX SLR digital camera.
First ospreys seen during the end of February. Bad Hair Day (the female)has been on this nest for the last five years. She has a band on her right leg and is somewhat larger than the male. Her mate "Slicky Boy" was here for four years, but we believe this years male is a different bird. The chicks hatched on or around the 26th of May. As of July 7 there were three healthy chicks. During the evening of both July 15 and 16 one chick disappeared from the nest! We are not positive what happened to them. Ospreys fledge within 48 to 59 days of hatching. We believe thay hatched around May 26. July 15 was the 50th day and July 16 wast the 51st day. Yesterday the third bird vanished for the nest during the day. That was the 58th day from hatch. What confuses us is that the juveniles always come back to the nest to be fed, and neither of us has seen another juve on the nest. It is possible that one of the chicks pushed the other two out, but it is very late for that to happen.