2024—What Makes Good Nesting Material?

The male Osprey was doing his best to deliver nesting materials that his mate approved. At first, we didn’t think that this tattered piece of landscape fabric would survive the test. When we returned to the nest the next afternoon, the tattered remnant was hanging precariously off the edge of the nest, possibly after being discarded. But, it got hung up on one of the twigs. And, on the third afternoon, while the male was away, the female moved the remnant from the outer edge to the middle area of the nest. I don’t know if it stayed there but at least for the moment, she seemed to approve and decided that it made for good nesting material.