New migration update from Rob. The Delaware nest is the Cape Henlopen cam nest

Greetings,
Penelope continues to explore New England. Still hasn't been to Maine or Vermont, yet, but Maine, at least is certainly likely to be visited. She has a bunch of new maps at the site.
All the other birds are pretty sedentary. Only Neale is still feeding  young, so he's moving more than the Westport River birds (whose nests failed). Sr. Bones has not made any new off-Nantucket trips for a while.

I'm off next week to tag three young Ospreys--1 in DE, one on the Vineyard, and 1 on Long Island.

Rob Bierregaard

JAZZEL

Nice live stream osprey cam. Chestertown, MD



CAM LINK
http://www.chestertownspy.com/osprey/


JAZZEL

Considering the 100 to 1 odds of Penelope visiting the vineyard,i'll take those odds and put 100 dollars
on the stake that she
does visit the Vineyard,she did get very close there about a week ago,and Jazzel do let me know if
LADDbrokes will take
that bet.

Quote by: Gerard

Considering the 100 to 1 odds of Penelope visiting the vineyard,i'll take those odds and put 100 dollars
on the stake that she
does visit the Vineyard,she did get very close there about a week ago,and Jazzel do let me know if
LADDbrokes will take
that bet.

Gerard, Penelope may very well visit Martha's Vineyard on her explorations, but very unlikely she will choose Martha's Vineyard to find a mate. She has a couple more years to survive migrations and decide. You'll just have to wait.

JAZZEL

I received this tagging/migration update from Rob yesterday


"I'm heading north on Sunday to tag 3 new juveniles. One will be at Cape Henlopen State Park on Monday AM, then one on Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday, and finally on on Long Island's North Fork, Sunday AM.

If you're on the Vineyard Friday, I'll be giving a lecture in West Tisbury at 7PM at the Howes House. (It gets harder and harder to squeeze now 9 years' worth of data and stories into an hour talk, but I'll try.)

Penelope's back on the Merrimack River, where Iain MacLeod informs me she has been flying around and over at least 3 Osprey nests. He says there's plenty of room up there for her, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's where she ends up setting up housekeeping next year.

On the Vineyard, we're going to use Meadow's transmitter, which we got back last year, at Meadow's nest. Meadow was the bird who flew west to Lake Superior before finally migrating south in November! She settled down in the D.R. and was shot at a little pond at a farm outside of Higuey.

I'm psyched. Haven't held an Osprey in my hands for over 2 months. Looking forward to adding 3 birds to our flock."

Rob Bierregaard


Cape Henlopen's cam nestling, 55 days old today, has not fledged yet, as far as I know. Rob said he planned tagging on Cape Henlopen's cam nest. Very odd, maybe he changed the CH nest site for tagging??? He usually tags young after they've had at least a week of fledge time. I just sent Rob a question on this, but I'm sure he's very busy organizing his trip north, so ... Just wait and see.

JAZZEL

Rob's tagging at Cape Henlopen is looking good. The cam has been down all week, except yesterday....but I was working, and out to work again now. But I did get these pics this morning







JAZZEL

It appears there is only one chick at Middle Cove Beach,it has not fledged yet but i did see a fledging
following a adult over Mundy Pond in St.John's
today.During the whole nesting season you will never hear the awesome shot.sharp whisle of the osprey,
it's an echoing,high in the sky,whisle like
no one could ever mask the sound,it must be the sound whistle that guides a new juvie after they fly away
from their nest for the first time and enter
the world of ponds and rivers,this whistle i only ever hear when amateur juvie's need a guide from their parents
to stay within their parents
vicinity,i really need to get my camcorder on the go to try to record this sound which will only be displayed
until the juvie is able to leave the
nest and visit ponds and rivers on it's own,and also back to the security of the nesting site until they migrate.
This is my personal theory
but i have watched live in field during this time and i gather it's on me now to try to record and display this
behavior to get it on this
site to discuss it,i'll try my best to get it.

Thanks for the reports, Jazzel - and is that an egg? Wishing good luck to this year's group of osprey.

And Gerard - that is so interesting! We see osprey now and then, but don't live near the water and so don't see or hear them on any sort of regular basis. It does make sense that they might need a bit of help finding their way home the first few times - will have to listen for that on the cams with sound.