egg shells

 On June 1st Nellie surprised me with this amazing sighting.

She removed her first chick's shell from the nest. 

I couldn't believe I was there with the camera to watch this event.

I've watched songbirds remove the shells but never the osprey.

She is amazing.

Now on June 13th I finally see the first little chick being fed by Nellie. 

The nest is deep so I haven't been able to see the babies.

There is a second little chick all peach fuzz and barely seen just to the right of the first hatched chick.

I imagine she is only days old.

So for now we have two littles and I wonder if we have one more to go.

Last year we had three, two males and a female. 

Nellie and Artie have done it again!