This afternoon one Osprey stood on the nest with its wings partly spread (Mantling? Solicitation?) while calling for a long time. Meanwhile a second Osprey kited fairly low over the occupied nest, then circled and repeated several times.
It looks like an Osprey is incubating (white of a head low and a bit hard to see) on the nest at the east end of Stewart Park and also on the nest in Union Fields. - - Dave Nutter > On Apr 28, 2018, at 7:12 PM, marsha kardon <[email protected]> wrote: > > There were two ospreys sitting peacefully together on the nest by the by the > bridge in Stewart Park today at about 9am. > >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 9:27 PM, Dave Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mid-day today I was at Stewart Park briefly, and I saw one Osprey standing >> on the nest west of the green suspension bridges. Nobody bothered it during >> the few seconds I looked at it. I wonder if that was courtship I witnessed >> before. >> >> The nest at the east end of Stewart Park has an Osprey hunkered down on it, >> presumably incubating. >> >> - - Dave Nutter >> >>> On Apr 26, 2018, at 9:03 AM, Barbara Chase <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I walked around Renwick woods earlier in the afternoon yesterday (April 25) >>> and watched that nest for about 15 min yesterday around 1:30pm. I saw the >>> one osprey land on the nest briefly and then fly away when the second one >>> approached. This interaction was repeated at least 5 times within the 15 >>> minutes I watched. Once the first osprey sat on the nest calling loudly >>> for about 2 minutes before the second osprey came and they both flew off. >>> >>> Barbara Chase >>> >>>> On Apr 25, 2018, at 8:54 PM, Dave Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Yesterday afternoon shortly before 5pm I was on the Cayuga Waterfront >>>> Trail where it crosses Fall Creek on a green suspension bridge between the >>>> end of Pier Road and the western corner of Renwick Wildwood. There’s a >>>> pole with an Osprey platform just west of that bridge (it’s not on the >>>> Osprey Trail map, and I don’t know its name). If I recall correctly, last >>>> year it looked like a nest there would be occupied (sticks being brought, >>>> Osprey frequently standing on them), but then it was abandoned. I wondered >>>> if there was too much human activity directly underneath. It’s a popular >>>> fishing spot. This year on my sporadic observations I had not seen any >>>> Osprey at this platform until yesterday afternoon, when I saw an Osprey >>>> glide in and alight on the nest. I had just enough time to think, “Wow, I >>>> must tell Candace!” before a second Osprey followed, but instead of >>>> perching, it descended toward the bird on the nest talons first. The >>>> occupant vacated pronto, flying upstream, while the evictor continued >>>> westward without even touching down. Maybe there are established Ospreys >>>> who don’t want certain other nearby platforms to be occupied. >>>> >>>> - - Dave Nutter >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> 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/ >>> >>> -- >>> >> >> -- >> 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/ --
