Through the 1990s, ospreys used to appear occasionally out at the Cornell Pond Unit 1 and forage in the lake area there. (Am betting they still do--I am not there to see)
I remember standing in my waders, taking out my video camera with its fully exposed 2 hrs of parental feeding at a redwing nest, only to have a hunting osprey swoop in. It was hunting clearly and gave me just time to wonder if I should (or could) rewind a short bit of tape and tape over whatever unknown feeding data there were. I stood there with my dilemma, not doing anything and then, too late to act, watched as it elegantly captured a quite large fish and flew off. Anne On Apr 22, 2014, at 9:19 PM, Candace Cornell wrote: > 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: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to 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/ --
