This looks like Air B&B gone wrong.

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Well some of the Ospreys are back at Rocky Neck State Park. On March 21 the Ospreys had started to rebuild the nest and on March 25 the Geese kicked the Ospreys off the nest. This is their failed attempt to reclaim that nest.
Thank you for stopping by.
Peter

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Z8, Nikon 180-600mm & 1.4ext, f10, 840mm, +.3EV, 1/2500, ISO 2000 and cropped by 50% in DXO PhotoLab8.

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Hi Peter, looks like the osprey really didn’t appreciate the goose’s intrusion. Nice catch of this interaction. The goose doesn’t seem concerned at all even with the bird showing its talons. Nice story-telling here.

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That final image with the talons forward looks pretty formidable, Peter. You’d think it would work, but geese are awfully stubborn once they pick a nesting site. I recall visiting Turnbull NWR in eastern Washington a number of years ago when we had a guided tour and they had a single pole about 40 feet high with a nest platform on top that geese had usurped from ospreys several years previously and kept ever since. The youngsters are light enough when young that they just jump off the top without a care straight down to the parking lot and momma goose leads them off to the water.

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Hi Allen & Dennis
Thank you for the comments, it will be interesting to see the youngster dropped off the platform and set up a new nest on the ground.
Peter

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Nice sequence and story. The last image really shows those talons and the eyes look quite sharp. Surprising it doesn’t use those talons to attack the goose.

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Hi Allen
The Osprey never came that close the Goose to use the talons. Thank you for the comment.