So I know that I promised a new design and logo and a “relaunch” so to speak, but “serious life happenings” have gotten in the way of that. However, there is still a lot of awesome happening in the lands of brutal bird blogging.
Last Saturday Sweep Commander and I, and our significant others, went on an excursion up to Pt. Reyes. Sweep Commander had gone up there recently to see a Peregrine aerie, and along the way had also come across an active osprey nest, and so he organized a little afternoon outing for us, complete with delicious foods, beer and wine. It was an AMAZINGLY awesome time. Clear skies and NO WIND. Super rad.
The first part of our journey took us past a very visible osprey nest. We pulled off the road and trudged around through (I’m sure) tick-infested grasses on the shoulder to get some shots. We saw an awesome aerial battle between a turkey vulture and an adult osprey, probably the male as there was also an adult on the nest. My batteries went flat during picture time, so we drove back to Inverness and picked some up and made our way to the beach for the pergrines. We stopped again at the osprey’s nest on our way out.
They were definitely being very photogenic both times. If I had to guess, I would say the female is still incubating. I didn’t see any signs of her feeding chicks or doing much other than sitting in the nest and looking around. We also saw several osprey soaring over us at Kehoe Beach while we were watching the falcons. And we will visit said falcons in the next post, Pt. Reyes Raptors: Part II: Raptor HARDER.
