*Look careful & one can see baby Osprey, I am not sure how many were in there just saw moment :)
Respecting this site I decided to quickly take the photos and leave the young ones alone.

The power pole near the highway has supported an osprey nest for many years. Ospreys normally build their nests (eyries) on top of large columns of rock or in trees with broken tops. Utah Power and Light Company built this nest site by adding an extension and platform to an existing pole. This provides the birds a safer place to nest and prevents powerline damage due to falling nesting material. Other such devices have been constructed within several miles of this location.

Osprey nests are generally constructed of large sticks, driftwood, grasses and bark. Ospreys lay 2 to 4 cream-colored eggs with brown to lavender blotches. Eggs are generally laid in May and hatch in approximately 28 days. About eight weeks after hatch, the young take their first extended flights.

Throughout the summer the adults can be observed bringing fish to the young at the nest. Fish are the primary food of the osprey, and are the reason they are commonly referred to as “fish hawks”. Ospreys dive from 20 to 100 feet in the air and almost completely submerge in their attempt to catch fish, then take it back to a tree perch or the nest for their meal.

While ospreys are generally more tolerant of disturbance than other raptors, they will defend their nest from any intruders. It is important to maintain a reasonable distance from the nest to avoid too much disturbance that could cause the birds to abandon their eggs or young.

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The power pole near the highway has supported an osprey nest for many years. Ospreys normally build their nests (eyries) on top of large columns of rock or in trees with broken tops. Utah Power and Light Company built this nest site by adding an extension and platform to an existing pole. This provides the birds a safer place to nest and prevents powerline damage due to falling nesting material. Other such devices have been constructed within several miles of this location.

Osprey nests are generally constructed of large sticks, driftwood, grasses and bark. Ospreys lay 2 to 4 cream-colored eggs with brown to lavender blotches. Eggs are generally laid in May and hatch in approximately 28 days. About eight weeks after hatch, the young take their first extended flights.

Throughout the summer the adults can be observed bringing fish to the young at the nest. Fish are the primary food of the osprey, and are the reason they are commonly referred to as “fish hawks”. Ospreys dive from 20 to 100 feet in the air and almost completely submerge in their attempt to catch fish, then take it back to a tree perch or the nest for their meal.

While ospreys are generally more tolerant of disturbance than other raptors, they will defend their nest from any intruders. It is important to maintain a reasonable distance from the nest to avoid too much disturbance that could cause the birds to abandon their eggs or young.

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The East Fork River is a roughly 45-mile tributary of the New Fork River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It flows southwest from the Wind River Range to a confluence with the New Fork south of Boulder.

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This site is a crossing of the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail. Originally called the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lake Wagon Road when it opened in 1858, it was the first federally-funded road project west of the Mississippi River.
F.W. Lander mapped this new route, shortening the trip to the Pacific by 5 days and avoiding a ferry crossing to the south where price gouging was alleged. Sand Springs was the only reliable water available to emigrants between Muddy Creek, 8 miles to the east, and the New Fork River, 10 miles to the west. Until the coming of the railroad in 1869, up to 300 wagons and thousands of cattle, horses and mules may have passed here in a day. The trail ruts visible behind this sign and continuing over the next ridge are reminders of the largest known voluntary migration in world history.

From homesteading in the 1880s until use of the automobile in the 1920s, Sand Springs remained an important watering hole for travelers and stock on the north/south New Fork to Rock Springs wagon road.

Public access to Lander Trail ruts is behind you to the east, just across U.S. Highway 191 on Bureau of Land

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This site is a crossing of the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail. Originally called the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lake Wagon Road when it opened in 1858, it was the first federally-funded road project west of the Mississippi River.
F.W. Lander mapped this new route, shortening the trip to the Pacific by 5 days and avoiding a ferry crossing to the south where price gouging was alleged. Sand Springs was the only reliable water available to emigrants between Muddy Creek, 8 miles to the east, and the New Fork River, 10 miles to the west. Until the coming of the railroad in 1869, up to 300 wagons and thousands of cattle, horses and mules may have passed here in a day. The trail ruts visible behind this sign and continuing over the next ridge are reminders of the largest known voluntary migration in world history.

From homesteading in the 1880s until use of the automobile in the 1920s, Sand Springs remained an important watering hole for travelers and stock on the north/south New Fork to Rock Springs wagon road.

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