'Yesterday, we got a call that an osprey was stuck in a tree and tangled

[elleng]

in a balloon string. We’re happy that we could help. We do more than keep the lights on!' #DelmarvaOspreyRescue https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/delmarvaospreyrescue?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG

[MLAA]

1. So glad you saved him/her 🙂

[elleng]

2. Not ME, MLAA,

Delmarva OspreyRescue did it!!!

[Karadeniz]

3. Yaaay!!!! We once rescued a hawk...not easy!

[MontanaMama]

4. Osprey like string much to their detriment.

Bailing twine often leads to their death because they’re so attracted to it. So glad this bird survived.

[elleng]

5. They try to use it for their nests, I think.

Fortunately it appears osprey near my house have only used wood.

[MontanaMama]

6. You're exactly right.

They like to use it in their nests. Our local baseball team (AZ Diamondbacks minor league team) is the Missoula Osprey! There’s an osprey nest in center field and the birds like to circle the field during games. It’s so cool.

I’m glad your osprey are using wood only for their nest! Safety first.

[elleng]

7. WOW! The Missoula Osprey are the first that got my attention,

and AMAZING they circle the field during games!

IN Center Field? On a surface of some kind?

[MontanaMama]

10. They have a nest on a power pole

out on the edge of center field that they built themselves! Sometimes Canada geese will use the nest early in the season and when the geese get done using it, the osprey move back in just in time for baseball. I don’t know why they circle the field during games but they do. They are quite the celebrities! The Clark Fork river runs right by the stadium so the osprey have dinner out their back door. Missoula is the city where A River Runs Through It. It’s really fun. The bummer is that corporate management of the team wants to change the name from the Osprey to something else. Such a disappointment. We’ve been the Osprey for 20 years.

[elleng]

11. WOW, ANOTHER team for me, The Missoula Osprey!

[2naSalit]

8. Out here in ranch country

the closer they are to a ranching operation, the more likely they are to use baling twine in their nests. Several years ago there was one such nest on a bridge down in Idaho and the birds built it up so tall that the state had to knock it down after nesting season, it was some six or eight feet tall, I had seen it many times over the years.

I got to help rescue a bald eagle once, that was interesting.

[elleng]

9. WOW!

Nest on boathouse adjacent to my house has been here AT least for the 5 years I've been here, and it's not TALL, but wide and deep! Last season, it provided bedding and dining room for triplet hatchlings.

[2naSalit]

12. Around here they will

also fight with bald eagles over an established nest. Eagles will also stick around all winter to defend their nests too. They don't all migrate out. We're starting to see an increase in Golden eagles too, the habitat is doing well for this season at least.

[elleng]

13. Haven't seen Golden eagles here, do have Bald Eagles, often using favorite osprey perches

on trees in my yard. HAPPILY I haven't seen them fighting.

[2naSalit]

14. I haven't seen that in a while myself

but yesterday I saw a murder of crows harassing an owl out in mid day. It looked like a great Horned Owl but it was a light, tawny color, most I've ever seen were more grey. They were active in the trees near where I was sitting so I got a good look at it.