Bird's the Word.

(image courtesy of NASA)

If you live on Lake Wylie, you've most likely noticed enormous osprey nests scattered around the lake, on telephone poles to artificial nesting platforms to the Catawba Nuclear station. The Lake Wylie Pilot published an article a few weeks ago providing readers a chance to watch a pair of ospreys raise their brood. The osprey parents built a nest at the Catawba Nuclear Station on Lake Wylie, so Duke Energy and the Culture & Heritage Museums partnered up and installed a live feed that can be viewed online by the public at http://chmuseums.org/osprey. The eggs hatched three or four weeks ago, and the entire family is sharing their day-to-day life with the World Wide Web.

It's really quite amazing to experience a first-hand account of such raw nature. The osprey is a magnificent creature and is the king of the waterways. The birds can be seen gliding through the sky over the main channel and plummeting 30 t0 100 feet headfirst into the water to catch fresh fish for their families.

Did you know? Ospreys mate for life, but take separate vacations and meet back up at the nest when the winter months expire. Both parents warm the eggs for about a month until they hatch, taking shifts. However, the eggs don't all hatch at once; they are staggered so that some of the siblings are larger and more dominant.

So take a few minutes and take a gander at the family of fowl on the lake. You won't be disappointed! Thanks for reading the blog, and for more Lake Wylie waterfront tips and Lake Wylie Homes for sale check out the Lake Wylie Man website!