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12-14-2010, 07:10 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Olympia, WA
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12-14-2010, 07:27 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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12-14-2010, 08:14 PM
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WG Operations, Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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Dave,
Fantastic osprey photos!! I've never seen osprey chicks before; not even a photo of osprey chicks. Wow! |
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12-14-2010, 08:48 PM
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Okay, Becky. You get to see bear cubs up close and some of us get to see osprey chicks up close.
 These weren't taken in December so I am not entering them in the contest, I just wanted to share them! I had the good fortune to go along on a banding trip with a NJ state osprey bander two summers ago. These osprey chicks were almost ready to fledge, so they were ready to be banded. We banded 8 healthy chicks that July morning. I will never forget it!
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12-14-2010, 09:09 PM
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Naturalist/Photographer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Olympia, WA
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You can tell juvenile ospreys from adults by the eye color. "Kids" are orange-ish while adults are a golden color. Thus ends this evenings class on Osprey in the Western United States.
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12-14-2010, 09:16 PM
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Dave,
Great shots! Very cool to see the osprey take its first flight!
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12-14-2010, 09:43 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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bridget, cool that you get to work up close and personal with them. |
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12-14-2010, 10:37 PM
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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I learned something new.
I didn't know their eye color changed like that. The Osprey are a pretty rare sight around here.
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12-15-2010, 01:41 AM
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WG Operations, Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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Bridget - Cool osprey banding photos. Beautiful photo of you holding the osprey! I love the thrilled look on your face...pure joy!
Dave Stiles - Thanks for sharing more photos of the osprey chicks in the Tetons. I had no idea the chick's eye colors were different from the adult's eye color. Thanks for the osprey lessons. The photo you posted of the osprey adult and osprey chick in their nest allows one to really compare the difference in eye color. |
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12-15-2010, 06:50 PM
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Other raptors also have varying eye color depending on age. Red tailed hawks have yellowish grey eyes as juveniles, brown as adults.
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