Where are the kids? Soon they will be ready to migrate.
First, one parent was waiting patiently with a fish.
Then the other parent showed up. They appeared to look all around and neither one took a bite of the fish. They looked like they were expecting their kids to return, but they never called out.
I did not see the kids return, maybe they showed up later and maybe they were able to be on their own. I understand the mother usually will leave first. The father will stay behind a little while with the kids before it leaves. The kids will leave around the same time or later than the father for warmer climates for the winter. Osprey on the East Coast of the US will travel to Central or South America for the winter.
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How sweet and tender they are. I don’t care if it’s instinctual, it’s a beautiful thing, traits that humans don’t always exhibit.
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They put trackers on loon parents and the baby in the Adirondacks. The parents left and flew directly south to the Long Island Sound to winter there. The young loon left a week later and took several days in a zig zag pattern stopping at different lakes but made it to the same area of the Long Island sound as the parents. Utterly amazing. How do they know where to go? They all end up in Central or South America.
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Incredible. I have no idea how they know where to go without their parents showing them. Amazing. It’s especially incredible, since I get lost in my own neighborhood.
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They have internal gps.
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I need that. I REALLY need that.
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