Harriet apparently has started incubating eggs; she spent most of her time this week flattened in the nest bottom. Ozzie brings her food and does some of the incubation himself occasionally, allowing Harriet to take a break and fly away for a time. Here you see Ozzie returning to the nest at Harriet’s request this week:
With Harriet spread out in the nest, Ozzie sometimes has to slowly helicopter into the nest to avoid hurting Harriet (and getting too close to her pecking beak:
Research indicates that female ospreys lay between one and four eggs, with each egg being laid a day or two after the prior one. The most common clutch is three eggs, which is the number that Harriet usually lays. The reported incubation time range for the first chick to be hatched is 35 to 43 days, with birds incubating in the northern latitudes, such as Harriet, taking longer than those in southern ones. She remains feisty when Ozzie is around:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on May 8, 2022.)