Ospreys

An opsrey brings in branches, one at a time.

We came across two nesting ospreys this week. One was just south of Crown Point near Lake Champlain. The second was in the Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area, in a beaver pond also being used by Great Blue Herons for a nesting site.  Last year a pair built a nest on Alder Meadow Road on the north end of Schroon Lake, but they abandoned that nest.

This bird was not happy to see me!

Osprey can be induced to build nests on platforms mounted on tops of telephone poles near water. Ospreys are fish eaters, often crashing into the water when seizing fish, rather than skimming and grabbing fish from the surface like other birds of prey.   

On a nest in the Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area