I think someone, probably Chris Tessaglia-Hymes reported seeing an Osprey carrying nesting material to one of the light fixtures of the foot ball (?) field in East Hill. I think Anne Clarke also reported seeing one in that area. I presume it may be the same pair/or bird possibly. I looked at the map it seems BTI is half between Beebe Lake and the Game Farm road. Distance seem to be just under a mile and half between the two points as an Osprey flies!
So it may not be very far from the Ospreys point of view. And South end of Cayuga Lake is about 2.5 miles, again as an Osprey flies. I am blessed that Osprey has chosen that highway where BTI is on the way! I am expecting to see more of them as the days progress with lots of fish! I have also seen them hunting along Fall Creek in the past near Flat Rock and beyond. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: Candace Cornell <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:19 PM To: Marie P. Read; CAYUGABIRDS-L; [email protected]; [email protected]; Meena Madhav Haribal Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] East Hill osprey 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]<mailto:[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<tel:607-539-6608> e-mail [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Asher Hockett [[email protected]<mailto:[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]><mailto:[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/ --
