[cayugabirds-l] Royal Terns at Myer's Spit

[Candace Cornell]

For the last three days, there have been 5-7 Royal Terns mixed in with the
gang of Ring-bills and immature Herring gulls at the Myer's Park spit. The
lake and stream levels are high and there is not much spit above water for
the crowd of birds to use. The gulls fuss and argue the real estate while
the terns do as terns do, sit quietly ignoring them, huddled together all
facing the wind. Yesterday, I watched two immature Herring Gulls repeatedly
dropping mollusks on the gravel spit presumably to open them.

Everyday I see exquisitely plumed pairs of Hooded and Common
Mergansers cruising up and down Salmon Creek ignoring the wind, rain, and
cold.

At Salt Point, the E. Bluebirds are populating the meadow; a Red-tailed
Hawk patrols the Salmon Creek near Rt. 34; Killdeer, Amer. Robins, Song
Sparrows, and N. Mockingbirds dominate the air-waves; and rattling
 Red-winged blackbirds and Kingfishers compete for back up. Coots, C.
Geese, Mallards, mergansers, and Red-head Ducks patrol the shore and the
call of a Common Loon can still be seen and heard every few days offshore.
(I'm usually focused on the ospreys so my bird sightings are by no means
complete.)

The pair of ospreys that were claiming the new platform at Myers Hill
apparently stopped their efforts. I have not seen them in over a week. Has
anyone else? These things happen. There is still time for another pair to
move in. Last year, the Salt Point pair did not meet until Earth Day, April
22, 2013. The female osprey—I nicknamed the female Ophelia and male
Orpheus)—at Salt Point should be getting ready to lay eggs soon.

and that's the way it is...
Candace

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] East Hill osprey

[Candace Cornell]

Thanks for looking. The nest blew down in a wind storm and I guess they are
not going to replace it.
Candace


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Suan Yong  wrote:

> Over the weekend I pulled over by those soccer fields but found no sign of
> a nest.
>
> Suan
> _
> http://suan-yong.com
>
> On Apr 22, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal 
> wrote:
>
>  I think someone, probably Chris Tessaglia-Hymes reported seeing an
> Osprey carrying nesting material to one of the light fixtures of the foot
> ball (?) field in East Hill. I think Anne Clarke also reported seeing one
> in that area. I presume it may be the same pair/or bird possibly. I looked
> at the map it seems BTI is half between Beebe Lake and the Game Farm road.
> Distance seem to be just under a mile and half between the two points as an
> Osprey flies!
>
>
>
> So it may not be very far from the Ospreys point of view. And South end of
> Cayuga Lake is about 2.5  miles, again as an Osprey flies.
>
>
>
> I am blessed that Osprey has chosen that highway where BTI is on the way!
> I am expecting to see more of them as the days progress with lots of fish!
>
>
>
> I have also seen them hunting along Fall Creek in the past near Flat Rock
> and beyond.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Meena
>
>  Meena Haribal
> Ithaca NY 14850
>   42.429007,-76.47111
> http://haribal.org/
> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:19 PM
> *To:* Marie P. Read; CAYUGABIRDS-L; geoklop...@gmail.com;
> veery...@gmail.com; Meena Madhav Haribal
> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] East Hill osprey
>
>   Thank you for reporting your osprey sightings—Has anyone been able to
> see the nest they are building in the BTI area?
>
>  Geo said "Apparently the promise of "owning" Beebe Lake as a mostly
> private fishing reserve outweighs the longish commute!" Ospreys are usually
> not territorial about their fishing grounds because fish are a moving
> resource that can't be easily defended. Their nests, however, are
> stationary and are well-guarded by the adults as is the airspace around the
> nest.
>
>   If there is a nest near BTI, it is not very far from Beebe Lake or
> Cayuga Lake as the "osprey" flies. Ospreys prefer to live within 3.1
> miles (3 km) of abundant food sources, but will travel further if they
> must. As Marie pointed out, in areas with limited resources, some ospreys
> will travel as far as 12 miles between their nests and food source. The
> limiting resource for ospreys in our area is adequate nesting sites.
> Since sturdy large, dead trees or tall live trees with open tops located
> out in the open and close to adequate food resources are rare, ospreys must
> depend on people to build osprey platforms.or take their chances nesting
> on utility poles and light fixtures.
>
>  Eyes to the skies!
>
>  Candace
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Marie P. Read  wrote:
>
>> I think Osprey are prepared to go quite a distance from where they nest
>> to where they fish.
>> At Mono Lake (which has no fish) they fly sometimes 10 miles one way to
>> freshwater lakes to find food, repeating this several times a day when they
>> are feeding young. There are 10 or so pairs that nest on Mono Lake's
>> offshore tufa towers, which provide nest sites safe from terrestrial
>> predators. They find nest material much closer though.
>>
>> Marie
>>
>> Marie Read Wildlife Photography
>> 452 Ringwood Road
>> Freeville NY  13068 USA
>>
>> Phone  607-539-6608
>> e-mail   m...@cornell.edu
>>
>> http://www.marieread.com
>>
>> Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake BasinA new book coming
>> May 2014
>>
>> http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/BOOKS/GccYTIzOzsYA/IbcMn4rPRp58
>> 
>> From: bounce-114721412-5851...@list.cornell.edu [
>> bounce-114721412-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Asher Hockett [
>> veery...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:55 PM
>> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
>> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] East Hill osprey
>>
>> I wonder more about the selection of a nest site distant from the fishing
>> grounds. Is this a common thing among them?
>>
>>
>>  On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal > > wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Today I saw at least three trips of osprey from behind BTI to Beebe lake
>> and back once with fish and once with stick.  It seems it is a quite some
>> distance to go fishing and nest material collecting.
>>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] More possible ospreys

[Ellen Haith]

Yes, there was an Osprey nest there last summer, which we were able to
observe during nest season - but only in passing! I have not been that far
north on 89 as yet this spring.


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Karen Edelstein  wrote:

> I was also told that last year there was an "eagle" nest along the
> driveway of Seneca Falls Country Club (just south of Cayuga Lake State
> Park) that I'm guessing is really an osprey nest. Nevertheless,  I haven't
> had a chance to check in person.  Has anyone else seen this?  I will be up
> in Geneva this weekend, so may try.
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[cayugabirds-l] More possible ospreys

[Karen Edelstein]

I was also told that last year there was an "eagle" nest along the driveway
of Seneca Falls Country Club (just south of Cayuga Lake State Park) that
I'm guessing is really an osprey nest. Nevertheless,  I haven't had a
chance to check in person.  Has anyone else seen this?  I will be up in
Geneva this weekend, so may try.

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