2 nests on 5&20 near the Refuge definitely occupied witj newly arrived
osprey and I think a 3rd as well.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 12:26 PM Dave Nutter <nutter.dave...> wrote:
> This nest platform, located in Allan H Treman State Marine Park near
> NYS-89 north of the maintenance building, had an Osprey use its perch
> starting a few minutes before sunrise on March 20th and it appeared to
> remain occupied for the next couple hours that I was in the park.
>
> This morning, the 22nd, that same nest platform perch was again occupied
> while a second Osprey brought fistfuls of soggy dead leaves for nest
> lining, and later broke a short length of thick dead stick from a tree
> along NY-89 and brought it to the nest. After delivering the stick and
> using its bill to move the new stick on the nest, the bird who brought the
> stick flew off again, and the one who had watched from the attached perch
> hopped down into the nest to further adjust things. So, this nest is fully
> claimed. I assume it was the male bringing materials while the female
> watched and later fine-tuned the nest today.
>
> Early on the 20th I also saw an Osprey stand on the nest of the older
> platform at Allan Treman, located in the north field closer to Cayuga Lake.
> This was definitely a second Osprey because I was able to see that the
> southwest nest (discussed above) still had a bird on its perch). However
> the bird on the north nest soon flew east, and I did not see any Osprey on
> or near it during the rest of my visit. Nor did I see any activity
> associated with this nest today, the 22nd.
>
> However I did notice today that a 3rd Osprey was perched near the nest at
> the NW corner of Newman Golf Course.
>
> Yesterday, the 21st, I was at Stewart Park and adjacent Renwick Wildwood.
> Several times I saw an Osprey along Fall Creek between the green suspension
> bridge for the Cayuga Waterfront Trail and the railroad bridge near NYS-13.
> It perched atop various trees, dropped toward the water but did not catch
> anything one time, and later I saw it flying downstream along the creek
> carrying a fish. I couldn’t see where it went. When I first saw this bird
> it was flying toward Fall Creek practically over the nest platform west of
> the green suspension bridge over Fall Creek next to Newman Golf Course, but
> it made no move toward that nest, then nor any of the other times I saw it
> that visit.
>
> On March 19th there were 2 eBird reports from that area, one from Renwick
> which said an Osprey was perched in a tree, which sounds like the behavior
> and location of the above bird. That was the first day for which I have
> records of Osprey in the Cayuga Lake Basin this year.
>
>
> - - Dave Nutter
>
> On Mar 20, 2025, at 4:47 PM, Elaina M. McCartney <
> <elaina.mccartney...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Osprey on Hangar Theater nest this afternoon.
>
>
>
> Elaina
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