Iris And And New Mate Welcome First Egg Of 2024 At Hellgate Osprey Nest - May 2, 2024
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Iris has laid her first egg of the 2024 breeding season! Watch the Hellgate Osprey Cam's matriarch hunker down and lay a brown-blotched egg in the nest as her new mate stands guard.
This egg arrives several days after a new suitor (seen on the nest in this highlight) has been hanging around the nest with Iris. The new male has some characteristics of a first-time breeder, as he's still a bit clumsy when it comes to mating and nest construction. Despite this, the new male's presence provides renewed optimism at the Hellgate nest. The past several years have resulted in a string unsuccessful breeding attempts due to the lack of investment by a mate at the nest site. Here's hoping this new male will be up to the task in 2024. We'll be watching closely!
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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 she attempted to breed with a new male dubbed "Louis" after an influential local Salish elder named Louis Adams (for more info: missoulian.com/...)
Ospreys are consummate fishing birds, and this pair fishes primarily from the Clark Fork River and nearby Rattlesnake Creek. They use their 6-7 foot wingspans to soar above the water, looking for fish, then diving as deep as 3 feet for shallow-swimming prey. Adult Ospreys usually weigh 3-4 pounds, and they can carry prey up to 50 percent of their own weight. Ospreys can live up to 25 years, and they typically lay 1-4 eggs in a clutch.
The nest used to be on a power pole about 200 feet west of where it is now. This was dangerous, since the Ospreys could have been electrocuted, causing fires and power blackouts. In 2007, the current nest platform was erected to provide a safer place for the Ospreys to nest. They took to it immediately. Getting the new nest platform set up, and installing and running to high resolution camera for this feed for you to enjoy has been a large effort involving many groups: Riverside Health Care Center, Karen Wagner, Kate Davis and Raptors of the Rockies, Northwestern Energy, Dave Taylor Roofing Company, and Dr. Erick Greene of the University of Montana.
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Beautiful, strong and long suffering Iris ❤ congratulations to you and your new mate. I wish you a successful year as a mom. We are all cheering for you today and every day. 🎉🎉🎉
That's wonderful! I hope all goes well this year ❤
so exciting to see Iris with an egg!
Very pretty egg!! Congratulations Iris
I truly hope Iris will be a mother again.
Iris!!!!🎉 Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations Iris and NG!!!! I am so happy that Iris has a new mate, finally after a few seasons of not. ❤ This is so beautiful. Update: so sad for Iris, NG was digging in the nest bowl and the egg went flying out of the nest to the ground 😢😢😢😢😢 I'm heartbroken 💔 for poor Iris and the egg 🥚, NG has lots to learn. Nest time 10:47 am when the egg was lost😢
Egg-citing, Iris!
Congratulations!
How exciting!!!! Hoping for the best! ❤❤
Way to go Iris!
May all the stars align this year for an attentive mate and enough fish to raise a healthy chicken! For all you've been through, Iris, you deserve a happy nest this season!❤
omg! Great news!
Congratulations!
Пусть у них всё получится! Много лет смотрю Ирис.
Pink or blue we welcome you❤ Great job ❤
I’m heartbroken to learn their egg was accidentally tossed from their nest 😭 💔. I’m hoping that Iris will lay another egg this season 🙏
Oh well... try, try, again. Iris just can't buy a break. Where's Stanley when you need him??
Stanley? Driven away yrs ago .. 🦜
Beautiful ❤
😭❤️ 🙏🏼May this new mate be a faithful husband to one and only Iris and a good father to her babies!!!🎉
Amazing news congratulations Iris and new mate❣❣
……and what a beautiful egg it is 😊 I’m so so happy for you two ..especially my girl iris
If only it was possible for Iris to go it a lone after mating & look after the eggs, then chicks by herself. I'm sure it would always be a great success...
Good for her to find a new young stud! Looking forward to seeing some chicks this year!
Here is to persistence ! Looking forward to a great breeding season for Iris and her new mate!
So exciting!! Congratulations!!!
Good riddance Louis! Our girl wised up!
Was she able to find it?
No Iris won't look for the egg or bring it back, it went over the side of the nest. I'm guessing it broke when it hit the ground 😢
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How wonderful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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The new mate hid the egg😔
Oh no! That's too bad.