Re: [cayugabirds-l] Osprey on nest, briefly

2018-04-28 Thread Dave Nutter
This afternoon one Osprey stood on the nest with its wings partly spread (Mantling? Solicitation?) while calling for a long time. Meanwhile a second Osprey kited fairly low over the occupied nest, then circled and repeated several times. It looks like an Osprey is incubating (white of a head

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Osprey on nest, briefly

2018-04-27 Thread Dave Nutter
Mid-day today I was at Stewart Park briefly, and I saw one Osprey standing on the nest west of the green suspension bridges. Nobody bothered it during the few seconds I looked at it. I wonder if that was courtship I witnessed before. The nest at the east end of Stewart Park has an Osprey

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Osprey on nest, briefly

2018-04-26 Thread Barbara Chase
I walked around Renwick woods earlier in the afternoon yesterday (April 25) and watched that nest for about 15 min yesterday around 1:30pm. I saw the one osprey land on the nest briefly and then fly away when the second one approached. This interaction was repeated at least 5 times within the

[cayugabirds-l] Osprey on nest, briefly

2018-04-25 Thread Dave Nutter
Yesterday afternoon shortly before 5pm I was on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail where it crosses Fall Creek on a green suspension bridge between the end of Pier Road and the western corner of Renwick Wildwood. There’s a pole with an Osprey platform just west of that bridge (it’s not on the Osprey