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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Phoebe Weston

‘I was watching osprey for five hours a day’: how the world fell in love with nature live streams

An older lady sits at a kitchen table with a laptop in front of her. She points at the screen as a cat looks on.
Dianne Hoffman watches a live feed of ospreys on a ranch in Montana from her home 2,000 miles (3,000km) away in Pennsylvania. Photograph: Rachel Wisniewski/The Guardian

In 2012 Dianne Hoffman, a retired consultant, became a peeping Tom. For five hours a day she watched the antics of a couple, Harriet and Ozzie, who lived on Dunrovin ranch in Montana.

The pair were nesting ospreys, being streamed live as they incubated their clutch of eggs. The eggs never hatched, but the ospreys sat on them for months before finally kicking them out of the nest.

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