THANK YOU JUDYB,
I guess I posted just after you did.
The map looks like she is doing a straight shot south through Florida. That's interesting!
I can't think about the next part of her trip, but I'll be waiting to hear how she does.
Thank you so much for the update.

Hi everyone! ......even though it is 2:50 in afternoon, I'm still drinking coffee.....so I'll share.

Thanks for posting the update Judy.......was coming here to do same.
Great news, eh? Based on the map and average miles traveled per day so far, I am in hopes she will (or did...being last data point was yesterday afternoon) roost overnight at
tip of FL before taking off over the water.

Please be safe, sweet Saco......fly strong and long......we are sending positive thought to you!

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Hi everyone! ......even though it is 2:50 in afternoon, I'm still drinking coffee.....so I'll share.

Thanks for posting the update Judy.......was coming here to do same.
Great news, eh? Based on the map and average miles traveled per day so far, I am in hopes she will (or did...being last data point was yesterday afternoon) roost overnight at
tip of FL before taking off over the water.

Please be safe, sweet Saco......fly strong and long......we are sending positive thought to you!

Sherri, I understand Saco is now a teacher....we are students...

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Quote by: Sherri

Hi everyone! ......even though it is 2:50 in afternoon, I'm still drinking coffee.....so I'll share.

Thanks for posting the update Judy.......was coming here to do same.
Great news, eh? Based on the map and average miles traveled per day so far, I am in hopes she will (or did...being last data point was yesterday afternoon) roost overnight at
tip of FL before taking off over the water.

Please be safe, sweet Saco......fly strong and long......we are sending positive thought to you!

Sherri, I understand Saco is now a teacher....we are students...

Hey Jazzel, I never thought of it that way but you are right! Saco is teaching us what happens during migration and we are students who are learning from it. Great analogy!

Good morning!

Saco has safely crossed 100 miles of open water and is now in Cuba! Here's the link to her map page on the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center website - http://www.nhnature.org/osprey_project/Saco_maps.html

It looks as if she hopped from island to island at the south end of Florida - then made a nice straight flight across the channel (or whatever that body of water is properly called).

Cuba seems to be one of the safer stopping points, but is not without risks, so I'll be holding my breath a little and sending good thoughts until we get the next report.

Thanks again to Iain MacLeod and the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center for providing the updates!

Today the sun rose at 7:26 a.m and sets at 7:05 p.m in Cuba which means that she flew in the dark
for approximately an hour and a half
allowing for some brightness after the sun actually sets,she has taken such a perfect course the
whole way i'm very impressed,what a girl she is!
Now i'm going to check the sunsetting times as she heads further south,i'm curious as to the
amount of daylight she will have
if she goes as far as Brasil.In May it's 11 hour's and forty minutes,June it's 11 and a half,wow
what a lesson i just got here,in December
it's
closer to thirteen hours and then it gets less and less,there longest day is either in Deceber/
January,who would have thought
this,we here in the north in June it's approximately 14 and a half hours,and we complain about
the winter,i guess
it's nice to be in the south in the nice weather close to the Equator,but they are living in the
dark per sey many more hours then us,in the month of
June if we added it all up we would be getting 90 hours of more daylight in that month alone,
so i guess an osprey would have to
go to Argentina to enjoy longer days,i wonder how far down they go,is the cut off point Brasil
for Martha's Vineyard osprey'smwhat is the
cut off point for an osprey from high north in Labrador,and might any osprey's in Florida
that do migrate,although i hear they
possibly do not,but much further osprey's from the southerly sections of North America,would
they actually go to Argentina.

Hi everyone.....
I am so thankful to Iain for getting us to be able to track Saco through Google Earth!
I copied a couple of the photos that are at the site she landed in Varadero Cuba.
Looks like she is in a Park!

Parque Josone en Varadero




Gerard, interesting info on the daylight hours......thanks.
Afraid I'm not sure of the answers to your questions.

Hello JudyB, Gerard and Sherri,

Judy, that was fantastic information about Saco's travels. So far so good.

Gerard, You raise some interesting points on the migration of northern vs southern osprey. Some of them must hang out in Florida.
I remember visiting my mom in Central Florida one winter. There were osprey everywhere. I was amazed at the size of the birds. Plus, I wondered how they dared to dive for fish in alligator infested waters???

Sherri, Those pictures of where Saco is are beautiful.

What a great team you guys are, bringing information, maps and pictures. Great job! AND
Many thanks!