On that same Saturday, our SFO group started at Myers Point. While at the spit an osprey approached and started hover-fishing Salmon Creek, pretty low and close to us. At one point it started diving, but aborted, denying us what would've been a spectacular sight at naked-eye distance. I have only ever seen osprey hunt at distance, even out west, so it's neat to see one comfortable enough with people to hunt so close.
After this, while I was scoping loons, the students said the osprey was perched on the platform, and I assumed they were talking about the nest on the point (#2) and not the new one further up salmon creek (#3), but now I'm not sure, since they would both have been visible from there. After walking to the lighthouse and back, a/the osprey flew in to perch on the big tree by the basketball court. We drove around to Salt Point, arriving just behind Dave's group. While his group walked down towards the point, ours walked across towards platform #3 salmon creek, upon which an osprey was perched. It presently took off and circled around to a nearby tree when it suddenly looked like it clumsily tripped over a branch; but I soon realized that what it was doing was breaking off a new branch which it brought to the platform and tried to place. The piece seemed too large and awkward, and it soon took off, circled again, but then landed in a tree farther away. It would later return to a nearby tree while we searched for bluebirds in the sumac. Suan On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Dave Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday morning I took my SFO group to Salt Point. We saw no Ospreys > on platform #69 (Church Hill), #3 (Salmon Cr), or #2 (Salt Pt). From Salt > Pt we saw an Osprey perched in a tree along Salmon Cr on the Myers Park > side. > > We also saw an Osprey atop #4 (Myers Hill), and a second Osprey, which had > been perched on a tree by the pond north of Ladoga Park Rd and eating a > fish, flew up to the platform briefly. After a couple minutes it flew east, > still carrying its fish. > > A few minutes later from the Ladoga lake access we saw an Osprey fly west > over the water not carrying any fish. Maybe it was coming from #68 > (Cargill). We did not see that platform nor Portland Pt #1 & #2. > > --Dave Nutter > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
