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 Post subject: Re: Dunrovin (MT) ~ 2013
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:50 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Dunrovin (MT) ~ 2013-2014
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Harriet now has three eggs to tend. Ozzie will be a very busy fisherman this summer!

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What a day for Ozzie and Harriet yesterday. Chick number two made it on the scene within 18 hours of chick number one - almost twins!

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And then there were three!

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LUNAR, SOL, and SHADOW! The wait is over! Harriet spent a restless night waiting to hear the names for her chicks! Congratulations to Oriole17 of our DaysAtDunrovin.com community for suggesting the winning names of Lunar, Sol, and Shadow - in honor of the fact that the first egg was laid on the night of a lunar eclipse - April 15, 2014

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Wonderful pics Dani!!

6/6--sorry a bit blurry...family pic!

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 Post subject: Re: Dunrovin (MT) ~ 2013-2014
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Attack on the Dunrovin Nest - June 7, 2014. It looks to me like it was another osprey that attacked :eggthumbup:



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Ozzie delivers a BIG TROUT



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A very SAD day at the Dunrovin Ranch osprey nest. Ozzie finally brings a fish late in the morning - but too late for chick #3, Shadow. He died in the night. Wednesday's rain and cold made it very difficult for Ozzie to catch the usual 6 to 8 fish - yesterday he only brought in two fish and that was not enough to sustain all three chicks. The growth that these chicks do daily demands lots of calories and even one day without sufficient food makes a difference. :cryinggirl:


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We laid Shadow to rest today

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OH no...and that poem was just so beautiful... :sorrow:


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Hi all,
Mary Farrant asked a good question about how Ospreys replace their feathers. This is a really fascinating topic, and so here is a crash course in feathers and molt.

Feathers Part 1
Adult Ospreys replace all their feathers once a year, but they do it in a very interesting way. Young Ospreys tend to take a bit longer than a year to replace their feathers. Molting is pretty complicated (and then names for the different stages of molting are more confusing than the characters in a Dostoevsky novel). So I will concentrate just on the main flight feathers and tail feathers.

Feathers grow in distinct groups or tracts. The major flight feathers on the wings are the primaries and secondaries. Ospreys have 10 primaries and 10 secondaries on each wing. By convention, they are names Primary 1 (or P1) starting at the wrist, and then working out to Primary 10 (or P 10) at the wing tip. Similarly, the secondaries start at the wrist too (with S1) and then progress to S10 near the body. Between the secondaries and the body is another tract of feathers called the tertiaries.

Ospreys have 12 tail feathers (or rectrices). They are labelled R1 in the middle of the tail, and work out to R6 on both the right and left side of the tail.

The first picture is a great photo of a fishing Osprey taken by John Armitage. I have labelled the major feather tracts on this photo. You can also see the very cool thumb feather - the alula - on the top of the Osprey's wrist. You can't very easily see Iris or Stanley's thumbs when they are perched, since they tend to lie flat on their wings. But now that you know what to look for see if you can spot their thumb feathers.

I have also included photos of Osprey primary, secondary and tail feathers. These are from the excellent "Feather Atlas" from the US Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory (http://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/fea ... mary_adult). Another really interesting thing is how different the primary feathers are in size and shape! These fascinating differences have to do with the aerodynamics of flight.

Study up - this material will be on the final exam! Now that you know some more about Osprey feathers, I will post more on how they replace them in a systematic fashion.
More to follow, Erick Greene (4 foto)

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 Post subject: Re: Dunrovin (MT) ~ 2013-2014
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Some very, very sad news coming from this nest. It appears that Ozzie has died.. :tissue:

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From reading some of the posts, they are not sure what happened...possibly tangling with an eagle over a fish...just not sure...Both kids are flying but not yet hunting..so..oh dear....I don't believe Mom has migrated...but, I also don't know about what's going on with food at this point...I really fell behind with this nest...


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 Post subject: Re: Dunrovin (MT) ~ 2013-2014
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In time of need, Harriet is there. Newly widowed Harriet delivers two fish within one half hour.





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Oh gosh-so sad to hear this :((

>>(Days at Dunrovin post)
Tradegy at Dunrovin: Probably Ozzie :tissue:

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 Post subject: Re: Dunrovin (MT) ~ 2013-2014
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Chick Sol continues to come to the nest to cry for food - and single parent Harriet continues to respond with fish. She seems to know that Ozzie is gone and she much delay her own migration to take care of Sol. Lunar has not been seen for several days. He may have begun his migration south.




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Worried about Harriet! Does she have a puncture wound? She delivers a fish with blood on her leg. http://www.daysatdunrovin.com/2014/08/3 ... -delivery/

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Relief! No blood seen on Harriet this morning.http://www.daysatdunrovin.com/2014/09/0 ... n-harriet/



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 Post subject: Re: Dunrovin (MT) ~ 2013-2014
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