This is a few weeks early for ospreys, but possible. I'm guessing it's migrating through. (It's a great time for them to get lake trout.)
Breeding ospreys start appearing on Cayuga Lake starting about March 25, although most return in early April. I usually start looking around the 20th just to be safe, but I've never seen one at either end of the lake before the 25th. The older birds return first, followed by younger birds. Until recently, ospreys were like the swallows at Capistrano, returning on the exact same day each year. However, in the last three years, a number of nests I observe have been arriving a day or two earlier each year. Birds that traditionally arrived on April 5 until 2016 returned on March 31 in 2018—climate change suspected. Eyes to the sky! Candace On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:01 PM Carol Cedarholm <cceda...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe I saw an Osprey on the top of a tall pine on N. Cayuga st. > yesterday. When do they typically come back? > Carol > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
