The AP is reporting on a slight bump that has delayed the National Park Service and the District Department of Transportation from finishing a bridge along Washington’s Anacostia Riverwalk. Officials say a pair of ospreys have built a nest and are incubating eggs on top of a construction crane. The new home, which DDOT jokes as having “unobstructed river views and cheap rent in DC” will stop workers from using the crane, that is until the next is abandoned at the end of the nesting season.

DDOT has uploaded a Flickr gallery featuring the the love birds and their future chicks-to-be.

philliefan99 is following the drama at this osprey nest, where female birds have been fighting over the male or the crib or both. In notes to his docudrama, philliefan99 writes that “challengers to the nest are dealt with by the partner of the same sex as the intruder.”…