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I was told that a pair of ospreys had built their nest on the end of my neighbor’s dock, so I grabbed my camera one May morning and drove over there to photograph these majestic birds and their nest. I was excited because I had never had the chance to get that close to large birds of prey, and I was hoping they wouldn’t attack me! While walking to the dock, the female osprey saw me and flew off the nest to land on a nearby tree limb. Just a few moments later, the male osprey came swooping in with a shrill scream of displeasure at my presence and started flying in circles above me. As I snapped pictures of him flying around me, I noticed he didn’t seem afraid of me but neither was he acting aggressive. Approaching the nest, I laughed when I saw the ospreys had built it around a plastic owl decoy that was placed there to scare birds away! It looked so funny sitting in the nest as if it were watching over the three brown speckled osprey eggs inside. Satisfied I’d taken plenty of photos of the nest, I left the dock and waited by the edge of the water. The osprey finally came and landed and I took this photo of him perching on the nest.