Ospreys Nesting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

The American flag on the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida serves as a backdrop for an osprey as it flies near a wind direction pole on Jun 7, 2023.

Two osprey are perched in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 7, 2023. In the background, the NASA meatball and Amercian flag are in view. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, along with 65 amphibian and reptile species, call Kennedy and the wildlife refuge home.

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus) also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts. [Source: Wikipedia]

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/merritt-island

Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Image Date: June 7, 2023 

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