Birding Instinct is a photograph by Karen Wiles which was uploaded on February 5th, 2019.
Title
Birding Instinct
Artist
Karen Wiles
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
BIRDING INSTINCT by KAREN WILES
http://karen-wiles.pixels.com
The osprey is a magnificent and beautiful creature. It's instinct to care for it's mate and it's young is amazing. The male here, arrives to feed his mate her gourmet dinner of fine fresh fish. This osprey nest is actually built upon a design I made myself out of orchid baskets and a dog's crate.
Their dedication in nest building was relentless upon my neighbor's boat top every single day. So I built a platform on top of his boat, let them build the nest upon it and then it was carried over to my dock and attached it to a piling and it worked. They continued to build their nest. The osprey platform must always be an open bottom so that water can drain from the nest. They will not build upon a closed flat surface which fails to drain water. The dog crate door worked perfect!
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February 5th, 2019
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Comments (10)
Brian Tada
Karen, what an amazing and magnificent capture ~ breathtaking! Absolutely superb timing, and great backstory, too! F/L
Toni Hopper
Congratulations on your beautiful wildlife image earning a feature in Women Photographers group! You are welcome to add it to the February Features discussion.
Dawn Currie
Karen, Congratulations on your feature in our group, Pure Nature Photography - celebrating the best of our natural world! You are invited to archive it in the 2019 Pure Nature Photography Featured Work Archive discussion thread for longer lasting visibility.
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