Thank you for reporting your osprey sightings—Has anyone been able to see the nest they are building in the BTI area?
Geo said "Apparently the promise of "owning" Beebe Lake as a mostly private fishing reserve outweighs the longish commute!" Ospreys are usually not territorial about their fishing grounds because fish are a moving resource that can't be easily defended. Their nests, however, are stationary and are well-guarded by the adults as is the airspace around the nest. If there is a nest near BTI, it is not very far from Beebe Lake or Cayuga Lake as the "osprey" flies. Ospreys prefer to live within 3.1 miles (3 km) of abundant food sources, but will travel further if they must. As Marie pointed out, in areas with limited resources, some ospreys will travel as far as 12 miles between their nests and food source. The limiting resource for ospreys in our area is adequate nesting sites. Since sturdy large, dead trees or tall live trees with open tops located out in the open and close to adequate food resources are rare, ospreys must depend on people to build osprey platforms.or take their chances nesting on utility poles and light fixtures. Eyes to the skies! Candace On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Marie P. Read <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Osprey are prepared to go quite a distance from where they nest to > where they fish. > At Mono Lake (which has no fish) they fly sometimes 10 miles one way to > freshwater lakes to find food, repeating this several times a day when they > are feeding young. There are 10 or so pairs that nest on Mono Lake's > offshore tufa towers, which provide nest sites safe from terrestrial > predators. They find nest material much closer though. > > Marie > > Marie Read Wildlife Photography > 452 Ringwood Road > Freeville NY 13068 USA > > Phone 607-539-6608 > e-mail [email protected] > > http://www.marieread.com > > Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin A new book coming > May 2014 > > http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/BOOKS/G0000ccYTIzOzsYA/I0000bcMn4rPRp58 > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] on behalf of Asher Hockett [ > [email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:55 PM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] East Hill osprey > > I wonder more about the selection of a nest site distant from the fishing > grounds. Is this a common thing among them? > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi all, > Today I saw at least three trips of osprey from behind BTI to Beebe lake > and back once with fish and once with stick. It seems it is a quite some > distance to go fishing and nest material collecting. > > > -- > > 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/[email protected]/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/ > > -- > > -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
