[Tanny]

The greatest experiance I've had was spending eight years studying the Osprey on a small island off the North West coast of Western Australia. I worked for an Oil Company on a two week on and two week off shift. In my spare time I was a volunteer for Conservation and Land Management of Western Australia, mainly studying the four species of marine Turtles that nested on that small island. For my own interest I studied the birds on the Island and the Osprey being the most common became a special bird to me. the Island was only 2 kilometers long and 500 meters at the wides part, there were five small sandy beaches and the rest was rugged wave washed cliffs. Seven pares of Ospreys nested on this island each year and as there were no trees the approach to the nests was very easy as they were on the ground or on the cliffs. I monitored the the nests each year, first the laying of eggs and later the hatching till the eventual first flight of the young. the most Ospreys I counted in the sky at one period was sixteen. All my photograph were taken with an old Pentax SLR camera but I will try to take pictures of them with my digital camera and post some in the gallery.