Osprey Chicks Pandion haliaetus

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July 4, 2009 Photograph, Week Five, Osprey Chicks (Pandion haliaetus), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2020. The chicks definitely look like Ospreys now.  Notice the buff nape, feathers edged with white and the red eyes--all characteristic of young Ospreys.

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