This will be so short…Brooks, the only surviving osprey fledgling of Richmond and Rosie at the Whirley Crane nest on San Francisco Bay has returned to her nest after being usurped by the intruder.
I went to the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1990 and received my PhD from the University of Leicester in 1993. After three decades of university teaching, I retired to devote my time to the study of raptor behaviour. I am particularly interested in Ospreys and am working on a long term project on third hatch survival and siblicide in these raptors. My blog is a result of a fascination with my local wildlife and the desire to encourage others to love and care for birds! I live on the Canadian Prairies and prior to the pandemic travelled a lot. I am questioning the use of aviation fuel at the moment as we all strive to help our planet. My early research was in politics and art including British public statues exported to Southeast Asia and Vietnam Resistors that contributed much to Canadian ceramics. Books and articles were published on those subjects over a period of 3 decades. Now I am working on books for children so they can learn about the challenges our raptors face.
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Thanks Mary Ann. I’m so glad to see Brooks home. Don’t know where Star is but I saw her on a post earlier too.
Maybe she has gone back to her nest too.
Thanks Mary Ann. I’m so glad to see Brooks home. Don’t know where Star is but I saw her on a post earlier too.
Maybe she has gone back to her nest too.
My pleasure.
Beautiful photos of Brooks. Thanks Mary Ann!❤️
Isn’t he handsome. So happy Brooks returned so we could see he is OK.
Thanks for the update, Mary Ann!
Welcome home, Brooks! We missed you!
It was so wonderful…and we now know that Brooks is a ‘he’. Very reassuring that he is fine.
My theory is that Brooks returned so that he could be here for the gender reveal. He knew what the rest of us didn’t.
LOL. I bet you are right!!!!!!!!! I always called Brooks a ‘she’….