Ospreys are returning much earlier this year! There have been two confirmed sitings around Myers Park and at the Myers Hill nest in Lansing yesterday and today. It's an uplifting sign that spring is coming early, but it is troubling as to the earliness. Up until 2016, the ospreys at Cargill in Lansing returned annually on March 31st and the Salt Point pair returned yearly on April 5. Each year since, their arrival dates have moved up. Last year it was March 25 and April 1, respectively. The pair on the Myers Hill nest came on April 3 last year. This is 18 days earlier than their arrival last year! I'm guessing it is a consequence of climate change, but such a leap very is troubling.
Please email me when you see ospreys active on their nests and please report any new nests you discover in the Finger Lakes region for the annual osprey inventory. *Thank you very *much. I can't do the work without your assistance. The !30+/- known nests visible from public roads are listed in the Cayuga Lake Osprey Trail <https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=fb09815967204bfc9386fe2d4d78f1b0> . Out of basin on Seneca Lake, there are seven nesting pairs of osprey at the Greenidge Power Plant in Dresden, which are attracted by the abundant fish congregating at the plant's warm outflow. If anyone knows the location of osprey nests near Skaneateles or Owasco Lakes, please contact me ASAP! One or two ospreys are regularly seen there, but I have yet been able to locate their nests. Again, many thanks for any help you can provide. Have a great and very bird spring! Candace Cayuga Lake Osprey Trail <https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=fb09815967204bfc9386fe2d4d78f1b0> -- 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/ --
