Happiness is waking up to a foraging Eastern Phoebe in our silver maple tree, first of the season for us in Trumansburg, and then spending an hour watching the Osprey pair building their nest on the cell tower just south of the village of Covert. We had extended views of male repeatedly making trips close by us to pick up sticks and clumps of vegetation and then returning to the nest where the larger female sat on the edge of the nest, occasionally going to the nest under construction and moving things a bit while the male was out, but most of the arrangements were made by the male. A member of our group also reported that copulation occurred, while we were dispersing, cinching the male-female ID. Good birding Jared Dawson Trumansburg --
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