Manitoba Falcon Cam Forum
News, Videos & Other Webcams => Other Wildlife Cams => Raptor Cams => Topic started by: Alison on December 29, 2009, 20:09
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I'm not quite sure where to post this. The ospreys are gone on migration for the winter, but late today, as darkness fell, there was a visitor to the nest -- I think perhaps a Great Horned Owl.
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysdec291a.jpg)
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysdec292a.jpg)
http://birdcam.xcelenergy.com/osprey.html
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Hmmm, seems like a great hunting perch for this owl. Lookout below!
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The Great Horned Owl visited again late today:
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysjan91a.jpg)
link to webcam: http://birdcam.xcelenergy.com/osprey.html
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A pair of Great Horned Owls at the nest this evening:
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysjan181a.jpg)
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysjan182a.jpg)
If they like this nest, the ospreys may not have a nest to come back to . . .
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Let's hope the owls either leave and find somewhere else to nest or let's hope the osprey's have somewhere else to nest...and not close by.
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One GHO returned this evening:
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysjan201a.jpg)
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Perhaps it's due to the childhood influence of AA Milne and the "wolery," but I thought owls nested in enclosed spaces such as hollows in trees. Would they be at all interested in a platform for nesting?
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Perhaps it's due to the childhood influence of AA Milne and the "wolery," but I thought owls nested in enclosed spaces such as hollows in trees. Would they be at all interested in a platform for nesting?
That's a really good question. I think Great Horned Owls normally prefer to nest in trees, but they do seem to like peregrine nest boxes too. I think a platform might be too much out in the open for them, but even if they only like to perch there, it would deter the ospreys from using the nest.
A couple of different GHO nests: last year, a Great Horned Owl raised an owlet in a planter in Brevard County, Florida:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4350378760_310d25ca4d.jpg)
And in Socorro, New Mexico, a pair of GHOs raised their owlets in the fork of a tree, which had been provided with a liner. They had tried to nest their unsuccessfully the previous year.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2717/4350368108_042af4065c_o.jpg)
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A new visitor tries out the osprey nest today:
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysfeb243a.jpg)
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysfeb244a.jpg)
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Oh My!
Now that's just a little high up to nest there mama goose....that looks like a long way down if you have chicks.
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And now a pair of Canada Geese at the nest -- they spent a lot of time there today, with a couple of pigeons visiting when the geese were not around. The geese usually spend time at the nest each year before the ospreys return.
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysfeb2525a.jpg)
(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af254/wingshigh/Buckeye/Peregrines/ospreysfeb2526a.jpg)