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["John W. Adams" <jwadams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our daughter lives in Murfreesboro, TN.  About two weeks ago, while
shopping, she caught a brief look at a large white bird carrying a stick.
She followed by car after the bird in flight.  She knew it was an osprey.

She found the osprey and a big "sloppy" nest under construction.  The nest
is near Florence Road in a subdivision.  The nest is on a utility pole - if
I remember correctly.

Overall creek in near by; also, Stones River.  Will anyone respond with how
large a body of water an osprey needs to feed young and how far from the
nest do they usually fly for fishing?

Our daughter checked 4/7, and the osprey was sitting on the nest.

Do ospreys return to previous nests???


Donna J. Adams
715 Ridgefield Road
Elizabethton, TN 37643
jwadams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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