CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Wednesday, March 29, 2023.
1. FOY Osprey
2. RE: FOY Osprey
3. RE: FOY Osprey
4. Re: FOY Osprey
5. Ospreys Everywhere All at Once!
6. house finches
7. Re: FOY Osprey
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Subject: FOY Osprey
From: Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:34:41 -0400
X-Message-Number: 1
This morning at 7:24am from our kitchen window I saw my first-of-year Osprey
flying south over the Flood Control Channel past Inlet Island and the NYS-89
bridge, clearly hunting for fish despite the practicing rowing crews.
Despite being out at Allan Treman State Marine Park yesterday morning for
nearly 3 hours, and finding 47 species, I managed to miss the Osprey which Suan
observed from Stewart Park. People walking at Treman have been asking for weeks
whether the Ospreys are back and when I expect them. They are our Charismatic
Megafauna, although Bald Eagles are also popular. I think March 26 was my
previous early record, but I have been expecting a sighting any day for the
past several.
- - Dave Nutter
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Subject: RE: FOY Osprey
From: Robyn Bailey <rb...@cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:56:36 +0000
X-Message-Number: 2
Someone posted on the Friends of Salt Point Facebook page that a pair was
visiting the platform on March 27, verified with photos.
Robyn
From: bounce-127256533-15067...@list.cornell.edu
<bounce-127256533-15067...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Dave Nutter
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:35 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] FOY Osprey
This morning at 7:24am from our kitchen window I saw my first-of-year Osprey
flying south over the Flood Control Channel past Inlet Island and the NYS-89
bridge, clearly hunting for fish despite the practicing rowing crews.
Despite being out at Allan Treman State Marine Park yesterday morning for
nearly 3 hours, and finding 47 species, I managed to miss the Osprey which Suan
observed from Stewart Park. People walking at Treman have been asking for weeks
whether the Ospreys are back and when I expect them. They are our Charismatic
Megafauna, although Bald Eagles are also popular. I think March 26 was my
previous early record, but I have been expecting a sighting any day for the
past several.
- - Dave Nutter
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Subject: RE: FOY Osprey
From: "Colleen Richards" <cl...@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:31:40 GMT
X-Message-Number: 3
There was definitely one, and possibly a second osprey on the field lights
platform over the baseball diamond at the base of the Black Diamond trail this
morning.Also, sadly, we saw a dead bluebird near the Children's Garden; 2
others were flying and singing in the nearby trees. Saw one lone male
bufflehead swimming with many Canada Geese in the inlet along Floral Park.
Colleen Richards
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From: Robyn Bailey <rb...@cornell.edu>
To: Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com>, CAYUGABIRDS-L
<cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] FOY Osprey
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:56:36 +0000
Someone posted on the Friends of Salt Point Facebook page that a pair was
visiting the platform on March 27, verified with photos.
Robyn
From: bounce-127256533-15067...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-127256533-15067...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Dave Nutter
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:35 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] FOY Osprey
This morning at 7:24am from our kitchen window I saw my first-of-year Osprey flying south over the Flood Control Channel past Inlet Island and the NYS-89 bridge, clearly hunting for fish despite the practicing rowing crews.
Despite being out at Allan Treman State Marine Park yesterday morning for nearly 3 hours, and finding 47 species, I managed to miss the Osprey which Suan observed from Stewart Park. People walking at Treman have been asking for weeks whether the Ospreys are back and when I expect them. They are our Charismatic Megafauna, although Bald Eagles are also popular. I think March 26 was my previous early record, but I have been expecting a sighting any day for the past several.
- - Dave Nutter
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Subject: Re: FOY Osprey
From: Ken Haas <waxw...@htva.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:17:56 -0400
X-Message-Number: 4
At noon today saw my FOY Osprey flying along the channel beside the Wegmen’s
parking lot.
Ken Haas
On Mar 28, 2023, at 4:31 PM, Colleen Richards <cl...@juno.com> wrote:
There was definitely one, and possibly a second osprey on the field lights
platform over the baseball diamond at the base of the Black Diamond trail this
morning.
Also, sadly, we saw a dead bluebird near the Children's Garden; 2 others were
flying and singing in the nearby trees.
Saw one lone male bufflehead swimming with many Canada Geese in the inlet along Floral Park.
Colleen Richards
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Robyn Bailey <rb...@cornell.edu>
To: Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com>, CAYUGABIRDS-L
<cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] FOY Osprey
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:56:36 +0000
Someone posted on the Friends of Salt Point Facebook page that a pair was
visiting the platform on March 27, verified with photos.
Robyn
From: bounce-127256533-15067...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-127256533-15067...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Dave Nutter
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:35 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] FOY Osprey
This morning at 7:24am from our kitchen window I saw my first-of-year Osprey flying south over the Flood Control Channel past Inlet Island and the NYS-89 bridge, clearly hunting for fish despite the practicing rowing crews.
Despite being out at Allan Treman State Marine Park yesterday morning for nearly 3 hours, and finding 47 species, I managed to miss the Osprey which Suan observed from Stewart Park. People walking at Treman have been asking for weeks whether the Ospreys are back and when I expect them. They are our Charismatic Megafauna, although Bald Eagles are also popular. I think March 26 was my previous early record, but I have been expecting a sighting any day for the past several.
- - Dave Nutter
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Subject: Ospreys Everywhere All at Once!
From: t...@ottcmail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:33:07 -0400
X-Message-Number: 5
Including one back beside the nest that is atop the cellphone tower
south of Covert ~ 4:45pm today. For the first time in three years the
nest had not been removed from the tower, so it was there to welcome the
osprey back to its summer home. An hour earlier presumably the same
bird was perched on a phone pole 1/4 mile away, picking at a fish in its
talons.
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Subject: house finches
From: Deb Grantham <d...@cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:28:29 +0000
X-Message-Number: 6
Pair house finches on my deck today and at least one mourning dove.
Mockingbirds appear to be thinking about nesting in a defunct multiflora rosa
bush. They've nested in that bush for years. It's dead and fallen down but
they're still interested. Good cover.
Sheffield Road, Ithaca/Enfield town line.
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Subject: Re: FOY Osprey
From: Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:57:55 -0400
X-Message-Number: 7
That nest on that platform over those lights over Union Fields in Cass Park had 2
Ospreys sitting on it this afternoon as I walked by on the Black Diamond Trail
about 2:30pm. The birds were across from each other, not snuggling nor obviously
ecstatic, but clearly they knew & accepted each other, so it looks like a mated
pair has returned.
Three hours later, when I walked south along the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, the
nest was not occupied, but there was an Osprey perched in each of 2 separate
arrays of lights over the fields. Maybe they aren’t quite used to being
together yet. Or maybe they aren’t quite used to the little kids and their
parents setting up to practice soccer at what looked to me like a respectful
distance from the nest. I think the Ospreys will get used to the situation and
get to business quickly. At least the Fish Crows were no longer playing on the
nest.
None of the nests around Allan Treman State Marine Park had any Ospreys nearby:
not the platform in the middle of the field northwest of the marina near the
lakeshore, not the platform closer to Taughannock Boulevard and the Hangar
Theatre, not the platform at the northwest corner of Newman Golf Course across
Cayuga Inlet from the Treman boat ramp. However, I did briefly see an Osprey
over the marina as I arrived and much later I heard a couple of chirps.
Of course these observations are from the guy who yesterday walked past the
west side of the Children’s Garden about the same time Duane saw an Osprey
flying across the road and water on the Garden’s east side, and later failed
to notice an Osprey off of Stewart Park when Suan was there. Birds are mobile
and sneaky.
- - Dave Nutter
On Mar 28, 2023, at 4:31 PM, Colleen Richards <cl...@juno.com> wrote:
There was definitely one, and possibly a second osprey on the field lights
platform over the baseball diamond at the base of the Black Diamond trail this
morning.
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