I am expecting baby robins this year hopefully.
With spring around the corner these Robins are starting to love each other.
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Mr & Mrs Robin
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I am expecting baby robins this year hopefully.
With spring around the corner these Robins are starting to love each other.
Yvonne Smith
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That is awesome ! Hopefully they will make a nest and you will get to watch slime robins grow up. Once they start nesting there, they might keep coming back each year.
This reminds me that it might be time to start checking the osprey cam that is at my home town in Idaho. They have a nest and usually have babies there each year, but last year, geese arrived first and took over the osprey nest.
Oops !
Covered in snow, so no ospreys showing up there for a while yet. Maybe another month ?
This reminds me that it might be time to start checking the osprey cam that is at my home town in Idaho. They have a nest and usually have babies there each year, but last year, geese arrived first and took over the osprey nest.
Oops !
Covered in snow, so no ospreys showing up there for a while yet. Maybe another month ?
I think the robins are nesting in Ivy growth on my next door neighbours fence.
Be awesome to see the little baby robins visit my bird station.
Funny you saying that @Yvonne Smith I watched the live stream about the Ospreys on YouTube yesterday if it's the same one your talking about.
Be awesome to see the little baby robins visit my bird station.
Funny you saying that @Yvonne Smith I watched the live stream about the Ospreys on YouTube yesterday if it's the same one your talking about.
They were back again today for dinner. 
Yvonne Smith
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I have been checking the Osprey cam at Sandpoint, Idaho, and it looks like the geese are there and are taking over the osprey nest again this year. The nest has been partitioned off, maybe to try and stop the geese from nesting there, but the goose has apparently already laid some of her eggs and is trying to sit on the nest.
Last year, it worked out bad all the way around, because the ospreys could not use their nest with the geese in it, and when the baby goslings were old enough to leave the nest, they died trying to jump down to the ground because it was such a long distance. So it was bad for both the ospreys and and for the geese, and none of the hatchlings made it.
By the time the geese left, it was too late in the season for the ospreys to use the nest. Hopefully, they can move the geese eggs somewhere else, and the ospreys can have their nest back this year.
This is a screenshot from this morning.
Last year, it worked out bad all the way around, because the ospreys could not use their nest with the geese in it, and when the baby goslings were old enough to leave the nest, they died trying to jump down to the ground because it was such a long distance. So it was bad for both the ospreys and and for the geese, and none of the hatchlings made it.
By the time the geese left, it was too late in the season for the ospreys to use the nest. Hopefully, they can move the geese eggs somewhere else, and the ospreys can have their nest back this year.
This is a screenshot from this morning.
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@Yvonne Smith Is that canadian geese? They're loud and very messy. 
Yvonne Smith
Moderator
It very likely is a Canadian goose. Sandpoint is in north Idaho, and about 60 miles south of Canada. They are going to have to figure out how to get the geese out of the osprey nest, or there will not be any baby ospreys this year , either.@Yvonne Smith Is that canadian geese? They're loud and very messy.
Yvonne Smith
Moderator
It looks like the geese are still in the osprey nest. The snow is gone (for now) and they put boards in the nest to make it harder for the goose to have a place to lay eggs, but she seems determined to stay there anyway.
Since she lost all of the babies when they fell out of the nest last year, the wildlife people need to find some way to get her to nest somewhere else. The osprey nest is about 100 feet in the air, so a poor little gosling that has not got enough wings to fly is just going to have a smash landing from that high of a nest.
Since she lost all of the babies when they fell out of the nest last year, the wildlife people need to find some way to get her to nest somewhere else. The osprey nest is about 100 feet in the air, so a poor little gosling that has not got enough wings to fly is just going to have a smash landing from that high of a nest.
Yvonne Smith
Moderator
They managed to get rid of the geese after they made the nest into sections and a ravel came along and stole the goose egg. Now the ospreys are coming back, so it looks like they will have their nest again this year.
Here is one of the ospreys, sitting near the nest.
Here is one of the ospreys, sitting near the nest.