Yesterday I visited Lighthouse Point Natural Area, aka Jetty Woods. As I walked past Newman Golf Course I noticed one possible reason I had not any Osprey at the nest platform at the NW corner of the golf course as I viewed it from across Cayuga Inlet near the boat ramp at Allan H Treman State Marine Park. An Osprey was standing on the east side of the platform, and the tall pile of sticks forming the nest might have blocked the view!
The maximum number of Ospreys I saw at once, looking across Cayuga Inlet toward the marina was 3 in the air. Looking from the golf course I didn’t see anyone at the nest along Fall Creek near the green suspension bridges. But that was just a brief observation. Maybe that’s not enough this early in the season. Awhile ago I said how the nest at Union Field in Cass Park was occupied by a pair of Ospreys. Then, every time I’ve gone past since, no one has been on the nest, including this afternoon as I walked past going north along the Cayuga Waterfront Trail in Cass Park. But just north of Linderman Creek I saw an Osprey to the north hovering above Cayuga Inlet. This Osprey turned and began flying toward Union Field as another Osprey flew south over the Inlet to join the first. They circled close over the Union Field nest and alit there, one on the nest and the other on the perch. It was a quiet statement. We are still here, in this together. I turned around and could see the NW golf course nest in the distance. Binoculars did not reveal any Osprey on that nest or platform, but then an Osprey flew into view and alit higher in an adjacent tree. Again that’s 3 at the same time, in places where I expected them, and it suggests to me that those Ospreys are claiming those nests, not simply flying around and trying out different nests. - - Dave Nutter -- (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/ --
