Hi Birding-aussers,
I have had some news that the Narrabeen Ospreys had returned to their nest
so went to check them out this morning. Sure enough they were both standing
on the nest being attacked by a Pied Currawong. My previous two visits had
indicated zero sign of the Ospreys despite scoping the nest and surroundings
from a good vantage point for an hour on each occasion.
After 10 or so minutes they both left the nest and circled around the dune
and beach area picking up seaweed and sticks which they promptly dropped
again, one got the impression that they were not really serious about
collecting nest material.
They then returned to the nest and the currawong's attacks. They poked
around a few sticks and other nest material while doing their best to ignore
the currawong.
I have more or less come to two conclusions:
Firstly, that they would not have both left the nest unguarded after being
attacked by a currawong if there were either eggs or young in the nest.
Something had to have happened to the previous clutch.
Secondly, they may be preparing to try again: 1) because they have returned
to the nest. 2) they are fiddling around with nesting material and 3) I
spoke to someone this morning who saw the male feeding the female. None of
these things are conclusive but together they may mean something.
Bruce.
Bruce Cox on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
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