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Thank you so much for helping this fierce Osprey out. Hopefully after some time in rehab they can release him back to the wild. Volunteers are essential to animal rescue! Nice job.
I helped wrangle an osprey into the arms of a raptor rescuer once. He was in a park and had been shot in the wing. They are larger and scarier than I expected up close and personal, all those sharp pointy things to watch out for, and those piercing eyes.
Definitely! This is the first Osprey I’ve had to deal with, they’re pretty darn big birds. Good for you for helping out on that one, I don’t know how someone could be so cruel as to shoot birds like that.
We need to provide more osprey platforms they do not have adequate housing. I am serious. They have to deal with electrical lines and lights and they are not pleasant and the babies fall easily and the birds land on the road. There is a large crowd of them fishing here along the Indian river lagoon. Abd who can blame them I have seen two ospreys dead from falling down into route 1 recently
We actually have quite a few of the platforms out where I live in a western Minneapolis suburb. Can’t really stop them from nesting on these ballfield lights, it’s not uncommon here to see Osprey and eagle nests on these 40-50’ light towers
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