5th Wheel Osprey -At it again -Hogback Road

Saturday morning, May 19, starting at 10 AM the odd osprey trying to land on nest 1 and nest 4. This went on until 12:30 PM. Also present was Dough from Knox County and later at nest #4 was Dick Tuttle.

She is probably the 5th wheel that had the big fight with the late returning female from last year.

She made 4 to 5 passes to each nest, upsetting every one. She took time in between to catch a fish and eat it at the old gooses platform #2, them went back at it, bugging the heck out of the two nesting pairs. Once she landed on #3 where the male from #1 (TM) went and sat on the same platform, but with his back to her.


Movie of the 5th wheel going at it with nest #4.



I did not see the pair on the cell tower, or in the green tree marsh on old Leonardsburg Road Friday or Saturday. Looks like they moved on. Dick Phillips says they should show up now-and-again, then return nest year to the same spot.

Frank Germann