All is well, but the nest is getting crowded as the nestlings grow at seemingly supersonic speed. In the photograph below, you see Harriet with her nestlings David and Ricky, which is what I see mostly when viewing the nest:
Sometimes, June makes herself visible, especially when her mother leaves the nest and there is more room to join her brothers and gaze at the waters of Great Cove. That’s June to the left of David and Ricky below:
David, the oldest and largest nestling, has been flapping his wings when a good breeze comes by, often whacking his mother and two siblings When this happens, Harriet often flits to a nearby tree to make room.
David seems to be enjoying a sense of potential lift, but I’ve yet to see him do an “osprey bounce” – riding an air current straight up four or five feet on his outsized wings, coming down, and repeating the move like a yo-yo. If all goes well, all three nestlings soon will be doing that, which will mean that they soon will be ready to leave the nest for extended trips and learn (apparently from emulating their parents) how to fish for themselves.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 23, 2022.)