We spent a memorable few days in the Outer Banks of North Carolina last April. The trip was made memorable by a pair of Osprey building a nest on an eye-level platform just offshore of a public boardwalk in the town of Duck. The antics of this pair kept us focused on them for hours at a time. I’m sure they didn’t know their activities intrigued us but we were drawn back to watch them over and over. I was surprised at how many people passed by on the boardwalk and asked us what the birds were that we were watching. This is one of the pair having just taken off from the perch in search of either a fish for its mate or for nesting material.