On this day at the refuge, the Osprey Mom at the last nest was showing her two chicks how to take off and land by repeatedly taking off from the nest, sometimes with a fish, sometime without one, taking a few laps and then landing. All the while, she was calling out to the chicks. It’s at times like these that you really wish you spoke in their native tongue so you could understand the instructions she was giving them.
From my trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ on 7-18-2009.
For more information on Ospreys, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.
For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.
