Maybe someone on the network could help me with this. My wife and I monitored a Great Horned Owl on a nest near the Cedar Ave. bridge in February, March and April. Someone told us she would try more than once if the first eggs didn't hatch, explaining the long duration of nesting. Then one day without ever seeing any indication of babies, the nest was just abandoned. We go into that area fairly often, maybe a hundred to two hundred feet off the road on the bike path and watch lots of birds. I always check the nest just out of curiosity. Yesterday around 5 PM, in my 8x42 binoculars, I could see a hump in the nest. Switched to my spotting scope and was convinced it was a head and thought we could see it move. Of course hoping for an Owlet. I carry my Meade ETX 90 astronomy scope and tri pod in the car. At 78 x, we could clearly see the hump. It was a Mallard hen sitting on the nest. It's pretty high up in the tree. Is this unusual behavior? My wife and I haven't been biding that long but didn't expect this.
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