This nest platform, located in Allan H Treman State Marine Park near NYS-89 north of the maintenance building, had an Osprey use its perch starting a few minutes before sunrise on March 20th and it appeared to remain occupied for the next couple hours that I was in the park.
This morning, the 22nd, that same nest platform perch was again occupied while a second Osprey brought fistfuls of soggy dead leaves for nest lining, and later broke a short length of thick dead stick from a tree along NY-89 and brought it to the nest. After delivering the stick and using its bill to move the new stick on the nest, the bird who brought the stick flew off again, and the one who had watched from the attached perch hopped down into the nest to further adjust things. So, this nest is fully claimed. I assume it was the male bringing materials while the female watched and later fine-tuned the nest today. Early on the 20th I also saw an Osprey stand on the nest of the older platform at Allan Treman, located in the north field closer to Cayuga Lake. This was definitely a second Osprey because I was able to see that the southwest nest (discussed above) still had a bird on its perch). However the bird on the north nest soon flew east, and I did not see any Osprey on or near it during the rest of my visit. Nor did I see any activity associated with this nest today, the 22nd. However I did notice today that a 3rd Osprey was perched near the nest at the NW corner of Newman Golf Course. Yesterday, the 21st, I was at Stewart Park and adjacent Renwick Wildwood. Several times I saw an Osprey along Fall Creek between the green suspension bridge for the Cayuga Waterfront Trail and the railroad bridge near NYS-13. It perched atop various trees, dropped toward the water but did not catch anything one time, and later I saw it flying downstream along the creek carrying a fish. I couldn’t see where it went. When I first saw this bird it was flying toward Fall Creek practically over the nest platform west of the green suspension bridge over Fall Creek next to Newman Golf Course, but it made no move toward that nest, then nor any of the other times I saw it that visit. On March 19th there were 2 eBird reports from that area, one from Renwick which said an Osprey was perched in a tree, which sounds like the behavior and location of the above bird. That was the first day for which I have records of Osprey in the Cayuga Lake Basin this year. - - Dave Nutter > On Mar 20, 2025, at 4:47 PM, Elaina M. McCartney > <elaina.mccart...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > > Osprey on Hangar Theater nest this afternoon. > > Elaina > -- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
