Thursday, May 27, 2010

First osprey egg hatches! Confirmed on May 26, 2010

Hi All,

Yes, this is fantastic news! The first chick hatched yesterday and awaits siblings. Check out he live webcam at http://www.briloon.org/watching-wildlife/osprey-cam.php for a first hand look!

More to come soon.

Cheers,
Patrick Keenan
BioDiversity Research Institute

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like we had two chicks hatch on the same day, one early in the morning and one later in the day! So far 5/28 6a.m. there is still an egg. Hoping for the best - yesterday it looked like mom was after them with a stick! but both survived. Just goes to show how many things can happen that we'd just never know about or see. Good luck little ones - keep your heads down!
J. in S.P.ME

Anonymous said...

AT 7:17 P.M.friday 05/28/2010 CHICK HATCHED !!!!! I watched the chick emerge !! from its egg... chick started to hatch about 7:15 ish.. hope the tape caught this !!!! I was like HUH !!!!!!!!!!!!???????????!!! WHOA...................

Anonymous said...

Saturday morning..the last egg hatches...Thank you JO for the pictures of all 3 chicks!!
J. in S.P.ME

Anonymous said...

I hope the wild life experts, can tell us , if the adults , That are bringing in new nesting sticks, are unaware that they are dropping stuff on the chicks and also stepping on the chicks..??!! i`m wondering if this is nornal, for ospreys.. seems like they don`t care they have chicks, that are hungry... and are screaming to be fed....hope some one can answer this odd behavior..Thanks

Anonymous said...

watched the chicks getting fed.. looks like everyone was filled up.. all are laying down and look like its nappy time...LOL

D&B said...

5/30/10 4:30p.m. eastern
Parent Osprey feeding the three baby chicks. Adorable.

Anonymous said...

Been veiwing the osprey web cam this monday morning.. the adult on the nest has not moved for awhile.. hope all is ok..

Anonymous said...

osprey web cam is not working.. looks like image is frozen

Anonymous said...

any time frame on getting the web cam working ??or is the web cam dead.. hopefully nothing has happened to the chicks..

Anonymous said...

This is a real crappy time for the cam to be down. If someone is actually monitoring, PLEASE, tell us what is happening in the nest.

Anonymous said...

Web cam is back on.. tho only 2 chicks now.. hopefully , BRI will tell us what happened..

Anonymous said...

thaks BRI !! for getting the web cam working..

Anonymous said...

It does not appear that the adult birds know what to do with their offspring. Still building nest and not feeding or sheltering the young? Very hard to watch.

Anonymous said...

I read on the blog, on the ustream link that the 3rd chick is in another osprey nest... why was this done, and was the 3rd chick not getting enough food?? there seems to be plenty of food at this nest..any info, about this nest would be nice..