During the recent visit to Connecticut, we get to the osprey nest by walking down Schoolhouse road. By stepping slowly and carefully until about 20-30 yards away, I got a picture of both birds before they flew away. My goal was to get past the nest so that the setting sun would be behind me. That strategy also required the birds to actually return to the nest.
This worked on one day and I got the in-flight pictures shown in the previous post. The next day, they flew across the Great Marsh to sit in the trees. After waiting awhile, I gave up and headed to the other side of the marsh.
When I got to the Money Point road side of the marsh, the birds had returned to the nest across the marsh, as shown here.
On the first day tracking the birds, I had a deer [see below] run across the Great Marsh while waiting for the birds to return!
Back in CT, brother Tom announced that a pair of ospreys have rebuilt the nest on Schoolhouse rd.
I immediately put together my gear and headed south despite the stay-at-home pronouncements and threats from the State of CT to ban all foreign travel into the state (I envisioned state troopers stopping all cars with out-of-state plates on I-95 at the Rhode Island border).
Late yesterday afternoon, we walked down to the nest and there they were! As I crept forward in the attempt to get a closer shot, one flew away (see below). I walked past the nest to get the sun behind me and the remaining bird flew away. I waited almost an hour to see if they would come back. Then, they did! But all they did was fly near the nest over the Great Marsh giving me the evil eye. They ended up sitting in the trees on the far side of the marsh until I gave up and walked back to the house.
