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Happy Bird Day To Me

4/3/2018

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For my birthday this year, my husband fulfilled a promise to have an osprey platform installed at the end of a dock in the marina behind our house. He’d gotten the necessary buy-in from the HOA and set forth to find a supplier of such things. Turns out our community landscaper knows a guy who knows a guy who builds osprey platforms.
 
Three weeks ago, this guy and his assistant showed up, and within an hour they had created a palace fit for an osprey king.
 
For the week or so that followed, we waited. Excitement built like the last moments in a pregnancy, when you know the baby could come at any point within that time. Every morning I popped out of bed and went straight to the window hoping to see a bird or even a delivered stick – any indication that the platform had been claimed.
 
The ospreys began trickling into the area. They seemed weary from migrating all the way from their winter homes in South America to their summer homes on the Eastern Shore. We saw one circling the river near the park. Then we saw another. And another. Long established nests dotting the area were beginning to show signs of life. We even saw one flying around our creek. But our platform seemed undiscoverable. It sat furtively, blending in so well with the backdrop of trees and sailboat masts that I wondered if perhaps, to the bird, it was invisible.
 
And then it happened, although not in the way that we expected. An eagle decided to sit on our platform. Within seconds an osprey appeared, unintimidated by the fact that an eagle is a much bigger bird. The osprey circled and dove around the eagle like fighter jet against a bomber. The eagle eventually retreated and the osprey claimed our platform.
 
The next day, the osprey’s mate arrived. I’ve aptly named them Maverick and Charlie (reference the movie Top Gun). 

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    ​I'm a young-ish retiree (auto-correct tried to make me a young-FISH, lol) who is embarking on a second career as a fiction writer. My intent for this blog is to post things that are at times relevant, at times, random,  and at times (hopefully) entertaining.

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