The Osprey by Faemike55
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What you are looking at is a platform, built by Clark Public Utilities, for the nesting Ospreys in the area. they do this for two reasons, Providing a safe place for the osprey to nest and thus preventing their untimely demise by nesting on the power poles directly and possibly electorcuting themselves as well as shorting out the system. This particular platform just happens to be behind the place where I work and so I took the opportunity to take several photos, walking up to the pole. the osprey just watched me and let me take its picture.
here is information from Wiki:
Osprey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
North American subspecies
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Pandionidae
Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Genus: Pandion
Savigny, 1809
Species: P. haliaetus
Binomial name
Pandion haliaetus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the sea hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching 60 centimeters (24 in) in length with a 1.8 metre (6 ft) wingspan. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and wings.
The Osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.
As its other common name suggests, the Osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish. It has evolved specialised physical characteristics and exhibits unique behaviour to assist in hunting and catching prey. As a result of these unique characteristics, it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion and family, Pandionidae. Four subspecies are usually recognised. Despite its propensity to nest near water, the Osprey is not a sea-eagle.
Thank you for your comments and faves. I wish you all a great Friday.
Mike
Comments (59)
shadownet
Great capture! That's a good thing they do for the birds too. :O)
3x3
Looks very cool Mike x 5+
pops
Excellent shot. I am so glad they are putting these platforms on top of telepne polls. I think it saves the lives of alot of birds
Digitaleagle
Glad to see them taking care of these birds, I watched a couple with young ones on vacation a few years ago and they are beautiful, very nice capture!!
koosievantutte
a very good solution! fine shot.
brycek
Fantastic capture and information!!
Darkwish
Really great! Nice shot!
whaleman
Be careful walking up to the pole. I have been attacked by them because of coming too close to the tree they were in. Wearing a hat is a good idea as you don't want your scalp raked by those talons filled with old fish parts - LOL! They are beautiful birds!
lunchlady
What a shot! Very beautiful birds!
mininessie
wow! great shot Mike ...love it!!!
lorddarkwolf
lucky capture of it!
UteBigSmile
They must be lucky up there, because nobody would try to disturb them! Have a great day, hug's Ute
ledwolorz
Fantastic shot.
lyron
Great capture!!
adrie
Beautiful photoshot my friend, wonderful capture.
jeroni
Splendid composition and colors my friend
bimm3d
great photo!!!
Rainastorm
Woah, cool. Looks like they are high and dry...awesome capture Mike!
schonee
A very cool shot mike wow!
RodolfoCiminelli
Splendid shot Mike.....!!
capelito
Great shot!
allnaydi
Great capture and fabulous idea they had there. It looks like they made themselves a nice home.
MrsRatbag
Wonderful shot!
Amosicho
Fantastic capture
tennesseecowgirl
Great photo. and great to read how they have helped out the birds to have a place to still build their nest. Have a great weekend~
mgtcs
Very interesting photo, great shoot! Gratz
gypsyflame
Excellent shot Mike....I too think it's a wonderful gesture to place the platforms there with thoughts to protect our wild life...thank you for sharing!
MirageBay
What a terrific photo! Good of the utility company to think so far ahead;) Thanks also for the info on the osprey!
BenBischop
I Luv birds.....Great Shot Mike....;)
flavia49
marvelous capture!!!!