2 nests on 5&20 near the Refuge definitely occupied witj newly arrived osprey and I think a 3rd as well.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 12:26 PM Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: > 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 > -- > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > ABA <https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- (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/ --
