http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/06/bonus-photo-osprey-in-the-chinese-gardens/ Writing | Photography | Web Design Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/06/bonus-photo-osprey-in-the-chinese-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-1427 ADerksen Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:33:07 +0000 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/bonus-photo-osprey-in-the-chinese-gardens/#comment-1427 Feh. Swing on by my folks' house sometime. They live near a bird preserve, but many of the waterbirds prefer the artificial lake within their subdivision - probably because it was at one point stocked with stupid tilapia, and there aren't nearly as many tourists banging around all the time. As a result, a whole family of osprey have staked out some of the trees around the lake. They are loud, and they are whiny. They are also pretty amazing to watch engaging in all of the assorted weird and complex osprey behavior, from learning to hunt, to the mating-game freefalls, to the screaming cloud of them that will engage and defend their territory from those awful bald eagles. Feh. Swing on by my folks’ house sometime. They live near a bird preserve, but many of the waterbirds prefer the artificial lake within their subdivision — probably because it was at one point stocked with stupid tilapia, and there aren’t nearly as many tourists banging around all the time. As a result, a whole family of osprey have staked out some of the trees around the lake. They are loud, and they are whiny. They are also pretty amazing to watch engaging in all of the assorted weird and complex osprey behavior, from learning to hunt, to the mating-game freefalls, to the screaming cloud of them that will engage and defend their territory from those awful bald eagles.

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