Date: 3/28/24 7:42 pm From: Kate T. Finn <midwifinn...> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cass Park & Newman Golf Course Ospreys
The osprey pair at the nest platform north of Truman Marina in the center
of the field at Hog Hole were seen mating yesterday. The female on the
roost pole and the male flying in above her.
Two additional osprey were flying and vocalizing over the boat area.
Kate T Finn
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 9:49 PM Marie P. Read <mpr5...> wrote:
> Hi Dave,etc,
> re. “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.” I was watching from one of the green Stewart Pk.
> bridges for an hour yesterday, and there was a bird presumed female at this
> nest the entire time. She called a lot, and twice the male came in with the
> remains of a fish, first time he landed, second time he hovered over the
> nest but didn’t land.
> Marie
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> *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Cass Park & Newman Golf Course Ospreys
>
> 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
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