eggs
Don't believe I've mentioned it this year, but've been checking the osprey nest at Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, Colorado. Nesting season is underway and the osprey couple have four eggs. Nature's best show of the cycle of life, repeated starting every spring, year after year, and going into August or September. I've been watching this nest for, must be about fifteen years now, since before we moved from The Old Place to 7H. I think so but am not sure it's the same mom bird I started with, but there have been, I guess this is the third male bird. The first one I remember, the large company of watchers who converse online named him "Super Dad." One spring he didn't show up and was replaced by a younger male osprey whom the watchers called something like "dark legs" - - he lasted two or three years, then last spring or the spring before he didn't arrive and the current bird, a young male, moved in. Osprey live with a great d...