Goodnight Katip

Bed time for me. Good camming to everyone. Hope you see lions what ever pride they are!

Back for a while

All crow related birds do that here too. In my bird book they say that ospreys has in America adapted themselves  to human built environments, whereas in Finland they have been  persecuted earlier and had to move to backwoods. I tought that there could be the reason. Your ospreys are used to fabric made things... Well, there must be some researches of the habit with different animals.

mongoose NK

Thank you Sassabuck.  Rattiecat, it was our chat last night and the pride you posted that brought the lions here no doubt! 

i have watched osprey all my  life and growing up

and living on a river and a lake with osprey i have seen many different nest and they all pack in toys-  and stuff - i asked experts they dont know why

our ravens are the same they like bright colored things

small  plastic - old bottle caps = they really like blue things

small plastic blue poker chips - ours pack of any tiny things

the kids dop on the lawn and it gone to thier nest

then thet blame the dog for taking thier toys

then also we have a the bush rat  - or pack rat

they will take  glass- bottle caps- all types of colored objects

to their nests

one nest in an old trapper cabin was about  2 feet high and  4 feet wide

it had old shells form hunting rifles- and even blasting caps from when

my dad was making the logging roads

true story

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HAT THE WOODRAT PACKS:
In addition to natural materials, bushy-tailed woodrats gather tinfoil, bottle caps, broken glass, and other shiny objects. From this insatiable urge to collect comes the nickname pack rat. (The woodrat is also known as the trade rat for its habit of dropping one item in favor of another.) Pack rat middens can contain all sorts of valuables. When diamond earrings and a diamond ring valued at $1,000 disappeared from a cabin west of Kalispell several years ago, police said a pack rat was their prime suspect. In 2003, a rusted .22-caliber gun and penny were found in a woodrat midden close to an unidentified human skull west of Kal­ispell. Detectives considered the gun’s serial number and the date on the penny as valuable clues, but were unable to solve the case.

Kru-kab, that must be some local habit. I have never heard the same of osprey nests here or seen during the years I have been following two of them. I have a good bird book just here to find some info. I´ll tell you if I find something.

Thank you sassabuck! I watched the video also a few minutes ago for first I had so little memory in the laptop that couldn´t see it. It was well shown that the last one of the lionesses wasn´t in good shape.