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Wildlife at Osprey House

Locality: Griffin

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Address: Dohles Rocks Rd 4503 Griffin, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 Here at Osprey House we are all excited when our growing chick starts to exercise the wings. Though having said that the nervous sets in when little hops are included in the routine. 10 for trying Little One. Not long now!

25.01.2022 As we enter the 25th year since Osprey House Environmental Centre was created, we bring you a glimpse of the build and some of the changes over those years

25.01.2022 Osprey Hope taking some time out at her favourite Respite centre on Kingfisher deck.

24.01.2022 25 years at Osprey House. We are blessed with birds at here both on the river and mudflats off the decks and boardwalks but also at the lagoon and nearby boat ramp. Regular visitors at all areas are the Australian Pelicans. They can be seen roosting on the light poles are swimming, trawling or feeding.

22.01.2022 Some pics of birds we see around Osprey House every day

20.01.2022 Today our little osprey chick fledged at just 65 days of age. At the early end for ours here. (Pippin went at 70 and Talon at 69) He made a good launch after about half an hour of early morning exercises and just jumped strongly and was away. That bit was good landing was another matter and he came down in the garden to the left of the pole from whence he then flew to a Casurina tree not far away. He was a tad entangled in the branches and looked awkward for a bit but finally... managed to get himeself enough room to spread the wings, it did however take him 6 hours 18 minutes to get up the energy and courage to give it another go and took off over the river again. He must have found another roosting spot because it was 20 minutes since he left the tree. He did make a picture perfect landing with the head wind assist a slow delicate touch down/ He settled not long after into his favourite hollow in the nest and looked far tuckered ... in fact too tired to even lift his head far. Well done Little One. Take a rest tomorrow and gather the strength for your flight career. Fishing next ... in a few weeks perhaps See more

19.01.2022 Well Little chick, not the springboard you should be using!!

18.01.2022 Osprey Moreton finally finished his fish threesome, some 7 and a half hours after Geerge delivered the first fish at 1030 Wednesday morning. He had a few naps, a few moments of indecision about which fish to eat and a few words with George when he delivered each of the three fish. With deliveries like that we wonder when he will fish for himself.

18.01.2022 And the fish was ..... awesome catch/capture!

16.01.2022 We have been following the development if our chick's feet, from the soft, shiny, delicate, grey feet of a new hatchling through the development of scales and spicules to what now look like proper big osprey feet. Ah they'll do the job Little One when you're after you first catch!

15.01.2022 Last week Moreton was smothered in fish as well. Tired from all the eating, osprey Moreton snoozes but periodically he finds something most fascinating about his feet

14.01.2022 Osprey George taking turns for a rest at the Kingfisher Respite Centre:} Sometimes it works, Moreton is a busy osprey and doesn't descend there often ... only for now I don't doubt! It is still obligatory to react to fishies in the river!

14.01.2022 Our growing chick took a fine opportunity last Wednesday to have a go at eating his own fish. A fish taile had been left in the nest overnight on Tuesday and Little One spotted it and after eyeing it up went and got hold of it but couldn't, for a bit, work out how to work the matter out trying the tail end and then finally managing to make a start. Excellent work!

13.01.2022 25 years at Osprey House. Over the years we have been visited by a variety of different migratory wading birds. We all marvel at the fact that year after year the fly from Australian (and other countries) to reach their breeding ggrounds in the Artic reaches, Siberia, Alaska and the like. We may not realis just how many years some of these birds live (and our knowledge comes from dedicated observers who submit information about tags they see. Check out the longevity of the Oy...stercatcher, coming in as the oldest bird observed at something over 40 years. Read more: https://wadertales.wordpress.com//waders-are-long-lived-b/ See more

13.01.2022 How amzing to see this

12.01.2022 Holiday closure alert Just a heads up that the visitors centre will be closed for the public holiday on Monday 5th October. Fear not you will still be able to view the activity in the nest from the ground level our osprey chick fledged Friday so maybe you'll see him out and about. You could also go down to the 3 viewing decks, migratory waders are back and visiting ..... or you might just be lucky enough to see George or Hope bathing after dinner. Have a great day whatever you decide to do:}

12.01.2022 Here in Australia we are blessed with some pretty loud birds, loud of colour, loud of attitude and loud of voice. This species falls into 2 of those ctaegories, loud of voice and loud of attitude. We are seeing and hearing a fair bit of them at the moment. Noisy Friarbird

11.01.2022 Just about anywhere you look there are critters scurry here and there in pursuit of food, safety, shade and if you look close enought you'll see some of the in the foliage at Osprey House

09.01.2022 Our not so Little One is spending a lot of every day preening and managing to look like a little goblin perched back on her haunch to rach the hard to get at spots that are still puching feathers through:} Still waiting for that tail!

09.01.2022 Now that we have a good deal of water in our Lagoon some of regular tiddlers are being seen again. Very popular are these tiny Black-fronted Dotterels.It is a mere 16-18 cm in size and can be seen scurrying round in the muddy margins of the lagoon.

07.01.2022 We thought to post some of our archived clips from our nest over the years. Nest building has been tragic and funny so we'll start there. 2016 Roy, our male of that time, usually came in over burdened with stick with funny awkward results.

07.01.2022 The Straw-necked Ibis is just glorious on a bright sunny day when the sun shows up the iridescence of his black feathers to the max. We see this species of Ibis roaming in the meadows in the neighborhood

06.01.2022 In the 14 years since the nest pole was planted we have seen 7 pairings prior to our present successful pair, George and Hope in 2018. I have put together this slide show to highlight some of the recognition markers for all but 1 pair. They were the the very short-lived occupants of the nest, just 3 months, they took the nest from our first pair. So we look at Odette & Oliver, Pan and Hal, Pan & Roy, Roy & Vivie, Roy & Chrissy, Chrissy & George. As you see by the names there has been much changing of pairs. Roy was abandoned by 3 females and eventually moved to greener pastures just down the road from Osprey House. Chrissy has dropped in only recently and we are unsure of the whereabouts of Pan or Hal though Pan has been seen in flight in the area> Pip

05.01.2022 It is always a good thing to be able to see our ospreys up close. That offers us an opportunity to see specific markers that will aid identification in the future. We see that Hope has a dot in her left eye but none in her right. The shape of her eye mask and the markings on the forehead and back of the head all put together to tell us that this is Hope, the female osprey that had been in our nest since early May 2018. She is 5th female we have had upstairs since 2006 when the nest pole was mounted.

04.01.2022 Sometimes it seems there is no coordination between Hope and George when it comes to feeding their os-pring. Hope had delivered a fish to Moreton earlier and then half an hour later George did the same. Hope not to miss a chance saw one was not being attended to and swooped in for the catch. She and Moreton then happily munched side by side in the nest. This is the top view

04.01.2022 This morning with a bit of a breeze blowing our osprey chick was in quite a flap .... and so were we as he rose a bit higher than he has done as he kept up a long power flap. Won't be long now before it's up up and away

04.01.2022 Not so far from Osprey House but in my own neck of the woods. Pip

04.01.2022 More activities at our sister environment centre CREEC

03.01.2022 25 years at Osprey House. In a follow up to yesterday's feed showing the pelicans, we bring you some pics of the oddities in their behaviour. You may have the opportunity to see pelicans stretching their pouch. They do this to mainatain the flexibilty of the pouch skin. It can be a weird and interesting thing to see ... and a bit awful:}

02.01.2022 Somee pics taken by one of fab volunteers, Derek. Beautiful pics!

01.01.2022 Some more of our regulalry seen bush birds. The first in this selection is a Blue-faced Honeyeater jevenile flitting up and dow the tree trunks after insescts. Though the Rainbow Bee-eaters generally head north over the winter we find ours all year round in our rehab planting on Dohles Rocks Road before reaching Osprey House. The Scarlet Myzomela (or Honeyeater also flys in for spring.

01.01.2022 Of course with all the hard work our osprey chick is putting into growing he must spend a lot of time resting as well. And so as it is with the parents a closed eye doesn't necessarily mean out to it. Ever vigilant for Crow&Co the only place to look is up ... and then back to sleep again