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Birders

Donkees

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13. They were part of the earlier arrivals, following the big herring migration ...

Reply to elleng (Reply #12)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 07:10 PM

Mar 2024

then it seemed several of those Osprey were just passing through and disappeared. The subscribers on the Chesapeake Conservancy cam mentioned the various sightings near your vicinity. The Kent Island female just arrived, but the male is missing (even though more than one Osprey was sighted near that nest)

Who knows where all the missing Osprey are traveling from? The early ones that arrived in New York and Cape Cod with the herring migration probably wintered in the southern states.

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The Osprey Pair, [View all] elleng Mar 2024 OP

Are the Geese still sitting in the Osprey nest? Donkees Mar 2024 #1

Not now/yet! Nest appears forlorn, at the moment, elleng Mar 2024 #2

Osprey were held back by recent weather, only 1 was counted at Cape May today ... Donkees Mar 2024 #3

Would be VERY difficult to do such, distance and perspective being what they are. elleng Mar 2024 #4

It's possible the recent windstorm tore apart any nest on that lighthouse ... Donkees Mar 2024 #5

MIGHT be hunkered down elsewhere, but storm really NOT very bad here, I've seen few elleng Mar 2024 #6

Thought you had the same nor'easter with howling winds that was moving up the coast saturday. Donkees Mar 2024 #7

Same 'event,' I think, but NOT nor'easter with howling winds! elleng Mar 2024 #8

Even the Osprey mother in Moorings Park, Florida got blown over in her nest Donkees Mar 2024 #9

WOW!!! elleng Mar 2024 #10

All of that powerful weather had to affect the migrations along the coast ... Donkees Mar 2024 #11

I think you're correct, but have read reports of ospreys in everal northern places, elleng Mar 2024 #12

They were part of the earlier arrivals, following the big herring migration ... Donkees Mar 2024 #13