Date: 3/23/26 8:02 am From: Astrid Jirka <astrid...> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Basin Osprey report, early 22 March
On Saturday the 21st, around 3pm, I saw an Osprey in the nest bw. Stewart
Park and the Golf Course, on Fall Creek. It flew off to land on a large
tree on the north edge of the golf course.
Good to hear of the recent arrivals!
*Astrid Jirka*
Director of Tourism Initiatives
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Discover Cayuga Lake - "Tourism with a Mission"
www.discovercayugalake.org <http://discovercayugalake.org/> Tompkins Center for History & Culture, Suite 303
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 7:57 PM david nicosia (via CAYUGABIRDS-L list) <
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> We had our FOY Osprey in Broome County today. Bird was forced down from
> heavy rain. It was heading north low over reservoir upper lisle county
> park.
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> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:33 AM, Dave Nutter (via CAYUGABIRDS-L list)
> <CAYUGABIRDS-L...> wrote:
> At the south end of Cayuga Lake there continue to be reports of a single
> Osprey. On March 20th Jay McGowan saw one "circling around nest area over
> creek". On Saturday the 21st there were multiple reports: from the south
> end of the Black Diamond Trail, from AH Treman State Marine Park, from
> Stewart Park, and from 4 members of a Cayuga Bird Club Conservation
> Committee work crew in Lighthouse Point Natural Area (Jetty Woods). No one
> reported more than one Osprey, nor did they pin it down as to where it was
> spending its time, but Ann Mitchell on the work crew reported the Osprey
> was carrying a fish.
>
> In Seneca County, where Osprey has seasonally ceased being considered
> rare, there have been 2 additional reports in the Montezuma NWR area after
> a hiatus since the 16th. Eleven people from the boards of the Iroquois and
> Montezuma Friends Boards (public support groups for the refuges, not
> necessarily Quakers) was allowed onto the Wildlife Drive before the general
> public (who I believe will be allowed on 1 April), and 1 member of the
> group, Christopher Hollister, submitted an eBird list including 1 Osprey,
> simply noting "FOY". This morning, the 22nd, David Kennedy, a photographer
> birder known for finding and splendidly documenting new arrivals in the
> north end of the Basin, shared to the Montezuma chat group on Discord a
> photo of an Osprey on a nest along 5&20 just west of the refuge entrance.
>
> I haven't seen or heard of any reports elsewhere in the Cayuga Basin, but
> the day is young.
>
>
> - - Dave Nutter
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