Hi everyone ..... finally settled down for the day. ....been a long one.

Judy, such a beautiful sunset picture.......I was watching at the time as well. Thanks!

Jude

Gerard, thanks for your encouraging thoughts.

Jazzel, I will keep your osprey baby in my thoughts and hope he will be OK. Perhaps he will surprise you and figure out the flying thing before the storm hits you. We can only hope for the best but do know, that my heart goes out to you after watching him grow all this while. I know how I would feel if it were my Milford nest.
..........and do keep out of harms way yourself!!

Jude i must admit that the only reason i'm aware of juvie's,especially the females shooting out over the Atlantic is off Rob Bieregarrd
migration site,of course in books it always stated where
they migrate to,but that detailed info like male and female juvie's doing extensive journeys over the Atlantic is all on the migration
pages which i spend a lot of time at,at times.I sort of expect
Saco to take off over the Atlantic but my hope is that she doesn't,or is still inland coasting down somewhat avoiding the storm,
but there is always,rather an even bigger chance
that she may have already shot over the ocean,until the update tells the story,i'm lost but Saco is a huge concern for me and
i think that ospreys are pretty free spirited,and that ingrown sense to avoid
storms and the rest is one of experience in very mature ospreys,ones that have done the journey over and over and over again,
i could be wrong but Penelope on her second journey down
south flew right into a storm so in life,i think with young ospreys when it comes to storms is the luck of the draw,they wanna go,they
go and sometimes timing is fatal,i'm literally on a hot seat
waiting to hear about Saco but concerning Amelia,and a lot of other ospreys at Ayer's the best that Saco has got going for herself
is she has seen a terrible storm live from her nest,she's stronger then most
and really showed Tiny2 how to pick up your game when she very early in her life had to start ripping apart fish herself and she did
it,is it the strength and resilience that she gained from the genes
of the new male,so many factors if i went on i'd get confused but i've always felt that Saco was a special bird from the start,also it will
be interesting to study as i could be wrong but she was born inland,might inland born ospreys
all coast down the South much further inland then ospreys that border the ocean,this could be a great factor if she does,the data will
tell us what is but i got my fingers crossed that she
is sailing on the height of a cloud and far inland,the very well read birder here Bruce Mactavish has written of song birds in the thousands
waiting out storms and bad winds before they head along
the open water stages as they make their way down south on the eastern United States seaboard so possible the osprey has the same
built in sense to avoid danger,i
can't wait to hear this update,but i have learned well to take the good with the bad,the migration stories truly tell you the story,Saco has
no one in this world now but herself,
just proves nothing is easy in this life,but i have often heard this quote that supposely Alexander The Great stated that a bird would fall
frozen from a tree branch without ever feeling sorry for itself,so however she manages
we should always be grateful that no matter how long or short her life will be,she was born,she ate,she flew in the sky,she was free,she was
strong and that in itself
is a huge gift of life whether it be 4 months or fifteen years,oh to be as strong and as tough as what nature can throw at a bird,i will never
be that strong,it's un-achievable!

Mornin' everyone

5:48 AM ......didn't stay long

Quote by: Gerard

,........Saco has no one in this world now but herself, just proves nothing is easy in this life,
but i have often heard this quote that supposely Alexander The Great stated that a bird would fall frozen from a tree branch without ever feeling sorry for itself,
so however she manages we should always be grateful that no matter how long or short her life will be,she was born,she ate,she flew in the sky,she was free,
she was strong and that in itself is a huge gift of life whether it be 4 months or fifteen years,oh to be as strong and as tough as what nature can throw at a bird,
i will never be that strong,it's un-achievable!

Gerard, I'm all choked up reading your thoughts.........thank you and so very nicely said.
I'd like to think that Saco at least has us......so many of us wishing her well and sending positive thoughts her way for a safe journey.

Well said, Gerard. Thank you.

And I agree, Sherri, she has our good thoughts to help her on her way.


9:15 am

Tiny2 was on the nest for a few minutes about 5 minutes ago. I wasn't near the computer to take a s'cap, and didn't see him leave.

Just got an email from Iain - Saco's in New Jersey!

"Saco made it to NJ by Thursday evening. At 6 p.m. she was perched next to a nice little wetland surrounded by lots of lakes (nearest lake is Wawayanda) in the Highland Lakes area of Sussex County, NJ. Looks like a nice spot to hang out and ride out a storm. Since leaving Ayers Island on Monday morning, her point to point distance is a little over 280 miles."

The good news from my perspective is that she's not near the coast, and has been following an inland route - and even if she continues south, I think she'll be much safer inland than she would be if she was following the coast.

Thanks, Iain, for taking time on a Saturday to let us know how Saco is doing!

I've had the cam up most of the time since my last post, and haven't seen any visits since the one around 9:15 am.

Thanks Judy.....isn't it great that she took westward turn!
It certainly will be interesting to see what the inland osprey do as to migration routes.
I don't care which way she goes as long as it isn't headed into hurricanes . I have enough worry with my Milford Kidds doing the
coastal route. Last year Kidd left right at a point where under normal travel circumstances, would have headed into a major hurricane
down around the D.R. - He made it through and came back.

I have been watching pretty much all day as well and haven't seen any more visits.

2:55 pm

Just came back to the computer and see Tiny2 on the nest. I haven't seen Dad or any fish so far today, though I haven't been watching full-time.




3:15 pm

Tiny2 just gave a bit of a jump, as if play-pouncing on something on the nest, then took off on a graceful swoop downward. It would be nice to see him come back with a fish, though I've rarely seen chicks bring fish to the nest - it seems that by the time they've learned to catch fish or grab them away from a parent, they've also learned safer places to eat their meals.

3:34 pm

Tiny2 returned to the nest a minute or two ago, and appeared to be peeping up a storm. And then he started backing up to make room on the nest - and sure enough, in came Dad with a fish. Looked like a nice big one - and as usual I missed the s'cap of Tiny2 flying away with it a minute later.





I had sort of wondered if all the fish the last couple of days was Dad's way of preparing Tiny2 to be on his own - and am glad that neither of them have taken off yet, with so much bad weather to the south.