Darien Osprey, A Month Later

The Osprey nest in Darien, CT no longer has two little ones, but two large fledglings flying on and off the nest.  They’re doing great and it was fun to watch then for an afternoon.  Highlights included a number of “food fights” over fish the father brought, and watching the mother go wading and then bathing in the ocean.

The birds with rows of small dots on the wings and yellow on the back of their necks are the fledglings, and the mother has markings on her upper breast, which are much fainter on the male.

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Inwood Hill Park Bald Eagles

When the Hudson River is frozen upstate and ice floes form, wintering Bald Eagles ride the ice up and down the lower Hudson.  With the cold weather we’ve been having, conditions are near perfect to see eagles from the Dyckman Fishing Pier in the southwest corner of Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan.  Today, we saw three adults and five juveniles drift by the pier.  Locals say the best times to watch are early in the morning from 8 to 10 a.m.

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