Osprey family at Lone Cedar

This is one of the osprey parents on the nest outside Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe in Nags Head, North
Carolina. We have been to this restaurant each summer over the last few years and seen ospreys with their chicks.

This parent sat on the nest the whole time we were eating, with the three chicks popping up from time to time. The other parent finally came back; then both parents left the nest for a time.

You can see a rainstorm in the background.