Osprey behaviour???

Stopped to take a few shots of an Osprey nest today. Mother was sitting with the 2 young ones & started acting peculiar, ie: like she was sneezing, then she flew off to a nearby tree & proceeded to 'throwup' 3 or 4 times. The first time it was a huge 'upchuck', the picture here is only a small bit of it. Pardon the picture, no PP aside from cropped, just wanted to ask what the heck she is doing, was she cleaning the nest, then regurgetating, or was she out on the town & not feeling well... Any answers greatly appreciated. Trying to learn more on there behaviour...

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Cheryl, I've spent a lot of time around osprey nests and have never seen this behaviour. I can only suspect she may have eaten something that didn't agree with her. Usually by this time the juveniles will not need cleaning up after and will just back up to the edge of the nest to relieve themselves.

Thankyou Harvey, I hope she's ok... She sure was'nt acting right. The first time she threw up was huge, looked like a dark green mass. The one I caught was about the 3rd time, & not so much of it. I'll go back for a look tomorrow & see if she's behaving normally. I was'nt sure if this is normal behaviour for them, like nest cleaning, or maybe had a bad 'fish' dinner, that's why I put the image here, for an answer. Greatly appreciated....

Ate a bad fish?

Good timing. If you ever hear what caused this behavior follow through and let us know.

I knew I should have had that take away curry

I've seen this behavior with Hawks and Bald Eagles and what they are doing is getting rid of the undigestible items...mainly bones from fish or whatever.

Duane N wrote in post #8300773
I've seen this behavior with Hawks and Bald Eagles and what they are doing is getting rid of the undigestible items...mainly bones from fish or whatever.

Thankyou Duane! That's good to hear, I was worried about her, but this makes sense.

Nice behavior catch Cheryl.

I've seen this as well with Kingfishers. Birds with a primary diet of fish ingest a lot of cartilage and bone so at times they will eject the excess much like Owls do. Not so pretty to watch and not something I see all that often.

Duane is Right Many Birds will Spit up undigested food mostly Scales, bones and Feathers for Raptors!!