{"id":307,"date":"2009-06-17T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2009-06-17T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:18:00","slug":"osprey-in-owls%e2%80%99-nest-kiawah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Osprey in Owls\u2019 Nest, Kiawah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/Osprey1-copy-743716.jpg\" ><img style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/Osprey1-copy-743713.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On our visit to Kiawah Island, SC, last week, a pair of Ospreys were active around a nest occupied by a Great Horned Owl in mid-March. (March 15 blog posting) <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Photos by Clate Sanders<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:black;\">The two Ospreys were present around the nest area each of four times we went there during the week \u2013 soaring, perching in pines very near the nest, and bringing fish to nearby pines to eat. Twice one of the Ospreys flew to the nest and sat in it for a few moments, then left it. On the last day we were there, we saw one of the Ospreys fly to the nest with a stick and appear to be working it in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:black;\"><span style=\"color:black;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/ospreys_split-785875.jpg\" ><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/ospreys_split-785870.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>After we returned home, I found an April 18 report from the nature program on Kiawah Island that \u201cthe last owlet at Willet pond is now gone and the Ospreys have moved in, they were spotted re-building the nest and courting.\u201d (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiawahresort.com\/recreation\/wildlife-as-we-see-it.php\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','www.kiawahresort.com']);\">Kiawah Island Golf Resort<\/a><span style=\"color:black;\">) So I\u2019m not sure what was happening now, two months after that report \u2013 but it seems like they have reclaimed the nest even after it was used by the Great Horned Owls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our visit to Kiawah Island, SC, last week, a pair of Ospreys were active around a nest occupied by a Great Horned Owl in mid-March. (March 15 blog posting) Photos by Clate Sanders The two Ospreys were present around the nest area each of four times we went there during the week \u2013 soaring, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}