A view of 2 of the fledgling triplets on the nest this morning.



Glacier National Park, St. Mary Lake Visitor Center, Montana.

Glacier's triplets are still at St. Mary Lake this afternoon. Last year they were gone by late August, per GNP website.

"Now hear this about that, Big Sisters!"


"See, I'm a big girl too."


"Shucks. They're not impressed."


Must confess that the little one (left) has tugged on my heartstrings.

8:48 am MDT,
S'cap just before youngest little lady (chick on left) flew from the nest. Good hunting youngster!

Looks as if both Big Sisters have a fish. Rain this morning at St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana.

Rob has updated migration maps, very, very interesting... I'm behind on posts, so they're from 9/1 and 9/6

9/1/10

Greetings,

Penelope's latest maps are very cool. No one else is doing much, but new maps are up for Belle. Will get to the others soon.
It will be very interesting to see how Earl stirs things up as the storm is heading right for our birds. It should get some of them moving, as the winds in front of the storm will be for the northeast, and hence be just what the birds want to get going.
In the past, most of our juveniles have left in the first 2 weeks of September. Males leave then as well, so the rest of this month should be busy here in Map Central.
I redesigned the Migration page a bit so links to all the maps are a bit easier.

9/6/10

2 birds are heading south, one is going north:

6 are on the runway waiting to take off.

None was impressed by Hurricane Earl.

http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm

JAZZEL

Thank you JAZZEL.

Wondered why an osprey would go north. Appreciate being able to get the facts to adjust my thinking as in osprey "dispersal" rather than "migration" from the "natal" area.

Glacier National Park, Montana:

Have only seen 2 of the triplets this morning. While watching, it seemed that they had been startled from the nest. So, I scrolled down the page to get the view of St. Mary Lake. Sure enough, there were morning visitors at the entrance. Saw a black SUV parked at the entrance, then saw a red SUV with a person outside of the vehicle (most likely taking pictures). The 2 O'lets were back on the nest shortly thereafter.

7:27 am
Startled.


Back on the nest.


http://www.nps.gov/glac/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

Rob updated his maps last week

"The Cape Henlopen Hawk Watch has had a couple of days with counts over 100, so the young and males are now moving south. Most of the females have probably already made it through to S. A.

Three of our birds are moving. Actually 4 if we include Buck, our South Carolina young from '09, who surprised us by moving his bivouac down in Venezuela.

Sr. Bones from Nantucket is our first adult to head south. Thatch (DE) is the first young to take the plunge. Belle's move north early in the month was a false alarm.

On the Migration page I've indicated for each bird when the latest updates were posted for their maps. Especially interesting this time around are Penelope (always doing something exciting) and Thatch.

Enjoy"

http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm

--
Rob Bierregaard

JAZZEL

Rob just updated his migration maps


Greetings,
This big weather system has pretty much all our birds hunkered down. Belle and Sanford are still up in Massachusetts and I don't expect them to move until this storm moves offshore. They're the only ones left at home. On the main migration page, scroll down to see what the weather looked like this morning--in a word--ugly.
Penelope left her D.R. hangout after 2 weeks and headed south towards S.A. but aborted the trip, probably after running into this storm. She bailed out and landed on a boat and traveled 150 miles northeast between the D.R. and Puerto Rico. She was still on the boat at 6AM on the 28th. We now have to wait 3 days to see if she survived the trip.
Neale (RI) is in Savannah GA or thereabouts, Thatch (DE) and Gunny (MA) are in Florida. North Fork Bob (Long Island) and Mr. Hannah and Sr. Bones (both Nantucket) are all in Cuba.

Link to all the maps, as always: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm

JAZZEL