# Return of the Osprey -Spring has sprung!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 22, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-osprey-spring-has-sprung/850026 "2020-03-22T12:49:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-osprey-spring-has-sprung/850026/1 "2020-03-22T12:49:21Z")

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I saw my first one on March 17 - the earliest by about a week since I’ve been keeping track. A couple of weeks before that, the first pair of Oystercatchers showed up. Almost time to get the boat back in the water!

[![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oyster_catcher_by_Dan_Pancamo.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oyster_catcher_by_Dan_Pancamo.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-osprey-spring-has-sprung/850026/2 "2020-03-22T14:20:27Z")

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I’ll take more of this!

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-osprey-spring-has-sprung/850026/3 "2020-03-22T17:48:23Z")

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Ours {NE FL} are year round residents. We’ve had a pair nesting on top of a light pole for 8 years now {will occ. see them in the offseason}, 5 chicks have made it fledgling status, at least two of which I likely saw in subsequent years (when they approached and even landed on the nest w/o the parents attacking either).

Now 4 miles away another pair has made a nest on top of a similar light pole; would bet sunfish to sardines that one of them is the offspring of our work pair.

Parked at the nest today to top off my larder-and parked next to a car with a UNF mascot (yes their school mascot is an osprey).

Underneath it simply said “Grandparent.”