It’s still early for Ospreys to come back. I think the questions are what the birds will do when they return, and whether people will continue to knock down nests if Ospreys choose to build other than on discs.
Ospreys and we who love them have been incredibly fortunate that NYSEG’s policy changed a number of years ago from tearing down Osprey nests to boosting the nests away from wires on platforms. I think this change was a major reason their population has increased in our area. I think it was largely the work of their forester, Paul Paradine (sp?). Platforms of the same design have also been placed on poles that don’t have wires. Other institutions and tower owners are not so enlightened. Maybe those folks could use a letter or call to wake them up. As for the discs, where NYS-90 crosses over the Clyde River you could see where Ospreys made their choice. They shunned the disc, but nested nearby. I’m not optimistic, but my pessimism has been proven wrong before (The martin box at Stewart Park for instance, has succeeded where I thought it would not). We shall see. - - Dave Nutter > On Mar 23, 2021, at 3:46 PM, Marty Schlabach <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > This afternoon we drove by the cell phone tower in the hamlet of Covert, on > Rt 96 just north of Trumansburg, that Alicia mentioned. We too had noticed > several weeks ago that last year’s nest was gone. Today there is still no > sign of an osprey. > > Marty > > From: bounce-125487631-3494...@list.cornell.edu > <bounce-125487631-3494...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Alicia Plotkin > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:29 PM > To: John Gregoire <johnandsuegrego...@gmail.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L > <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bad news for Osprey along 5 & 20 > > The osprey nest on the cell phone tower just north of Trumansburg went > missing at the end of last winter, was rebuilt and used successfully again > last spring/summer, and went missing again about a month ago, I assume torn > down but didn't see it being done. > > > On 3/23/2021 3:07 PM, John Gregoire wrote: > The sole Osprey nest in Schuyler was atop the microwave comm tower behind the > Tops Market. It had been there for 5 years with great success. Someone tore > it down in the last few days. > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:07 PM Ann Mitchell <annmitchel...@gmail.com> wrote: > The nests are being torn down and replaced with the discs. No sign of Osprey. > > Ann > > Sent from my iPhone > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
