Osprey lands at its nest on the Manasquan Reservoir in Howell, NJ on 5-22-2009. With half a day off from work and a chance of thunderstorms later this weekend, I made a last minute decision to go to the reservoir and check in on the Ospreys I have been following. It doesn’t appear that the chicks have hatched at this particular nest yet but I am told they have hatched at the nest closest to the Environmental Center. On a sad note, apparently from what I was told, last weekend’s storm dealt the Eagle’s nest a catastrophic blow and most of it was destroyed. The Eagles were still in the area however and this year’s two chicks were matured enough to probably stand a pretty good chance of making it without the nest. I saw one of the chicks sitting where the full nest used to be and the two adults were fishing nearby.
I tried to envision what it must have been like for the Ospreys weathering the storm that took out the Eagles nest and so in order to come up with an artistic variation of this photo that would portrait that scene, I blended in some free background textures from the following contributors.
Polution – Ghostbones
Aged Puffs – Skeletal Mess
For more information on the Manasquan Resevoir, visit their web site at this web site.
For more information on Osprey, visit the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology.
