updated the link in the first post and the cam is so much better this year!

What a great view!

Thank you, jazzel and soph!

He's back. I was at the nest this morning when he returned. I got photos, I'll post them if they came out, I don't know what the camera was set on...I just grabbed it and shot.




JAZZEL

The WHOI nest has had an immature RTH for the past three years, never a problem. Now she has a couple of males courting her and they are being somewhat pests, he spent most of his time yesterday giving them the BOOT.

When I went back yesterday afternoon all he did was chase them around, so I never did get him back on the nest for good photos, I'll try again this afternoon.

The two photos I got in the morning are as bad as I knew they would be, but I'll post them anyway. I'm also posting a photo of the RTHs I got when I went back in the afternoon, and a photo of a small herd of deer on the hill next to the nest (there were 5, I could only get four in the photo). Woods Hole is a very strange place to see a deer, never mind 5







JAZZEL

Thanks for the pictures JAZZEL,
Very enjoyable. Hope that the deer have found a refuge.

If anyone sees a osprey on the nest please get a pic and time. There has been no osprey on the nest or anywhere at the site since 11:00 am Sunday, and not even a stick added to the nest. Very unusual, not good. I'm going down there now to have a look around. This is the nest now, so if there's a change we can tell. Thanks.



JAZZEL

I spent the morning at the nest, no sign of the ospreys, I checked all their usual places, then just watched and waited. The weather is bad, but other nests I watch had ospreys on the nest, or in trees close by. This is not looking good, but if it wasn't the female returning Sunday (as Pam posted on DPOF ) she may be back today or very soon. She returned last season 3/30, four days after the male.

I'll be going back to the nest around 3:00 this afternoon.

Thanks to every one watching!!!

JAZZEL

I went back this afternoon, until about 5:00 when the fog started rolling in and I couldn't see 100' in front of me. On my way back I checked the other osprey nests in the area, all were normal with one or both ospreys. I just hope there's not injured ospreys out there. I have no clue why at least one of the ospreys from Sunday morning didn't come back to the nest.

I'm hoping if the second osprey on Sunday wasn't the female (and I don't believe it was) she'll return in the next couple of days and attract a new male.

I'll be back at it tomorrow, hope with better news.

JAZZEL