First Osprey (not Iris) Returns To Hellgate Osprey Nest! – April 2, 2019

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The first Osprey of the season landed on cam today; we later were able to detect that it was not Iris, the matriarch of the Hellgate Osprey nest. Iris turned up a few days later, on April 7, and displaced this female from the nest site. Iris and Louis typically arrive back to their territory in early April after completing their long spring migration. Now that Iris is back, the Hellgate Osprey community is anxiously waiting for her mate, Louis, to make his return. Watch live with updates, tweets, and highlights at http://AllAboutBirds.org/ospreys Watch the cam and learn about the Montana Osprey Project at http://hs.umt.edu/osprey/ ********************************* This Osprey nest is at the mouth of the spectacular Hellgate Canyon at the edge of Missoula, Montana. It’s in a very busy location, right outside the Riverside Health Care Center and next to busy parking lots, a construction site, a busy highway, and a railroad. However, it’s also an ideal location in many ways, since these Ospreys have riverfront property only about 50 feet from the Clark Fork River. Being so close to people does not bother them, and hundreds of people enjoy watching them every day. The female Osprey at this nest is called Iris because she has very distinctive spots on her iris, especially in her left eye. These iris patterns serve as individual barcodes and allow us to identify her. She has nested at this site for many years. Her mate of many years, Stanley, did not return in 2016, and s

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