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Author: | Jazzel26 [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:39 am ] |
Post subject: | USA MIGRATION 2009 ~ 2010 |
PLEASE POST USA MIGRATION UPDATES HERE LINKS Rob Bierregaard ~ 2009/2010 |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:58 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
VERY, VERY bad news from Rob's migration map updates.....ISABEL, CALEY, BEA and MOFFET JAZZEL |
Author: | Beth [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Just terrible... |
Author: | skygirlblue [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:48 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
This is just so sad.... |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:47 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
I just received this email update from Rob "New Year's Greetings to all! We have the old good news/bad news scenario, with the bad news outweighing the good. It was a rough end of the year for our juveniles. We lost Moffett in Cuba, Caley in Guyana, and Bea in Venezuela. The only good news is that we're getting Bea's transmitter back (very interesting story, told on her map page). We would have gotten Isabel's as well, but apparently a herd of feral pigs got to the patch of savanna where her transmitter was sitting out in the open, happily transmitting away, just waiting to be picked up, a week or so before our colleague Adrian Naveda-Rodrigues arrived on the scene. The pigs either ate the transmitter or stomped it into the ground as they turned that bit of savanna into a pig wallow. The lone survivor of this year's crop of juveniles is Buck, our South Carolina bird. He's still in northern Venezuela, and still exploring, although he's got a couple of spots he keeps coming back to. Seems a bit like Claws. Penelope is doing fine down in French Guiana. She should be heading home in March or April. The three adult males are all fine and hunkered down in very localized areas. They should head north in February or March. Overall, the loss of the young is about what we expect, but we're delighted to have recovered 3 of the 6 transmitters that were on birds that died. That's pretty remarkable." All the birds have new maps: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/ ... _links.htm -- Rob Bierregaard Biology Dept. UNC-Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte NC 28223 JAZZEL |
Author: | Mvgirl [ Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:13 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Ive never felt so sad as I do today.That email is not how I wanted to start my day.Its been a rough day. so sad to know they have been lost.But so sad about my moffet because I spent so much time with him last summer.I have been asked to display my photography in March and am planning on doing a collage in honor of Moffet.Although I still hold hope that his transmitter fell off and he is livin large in cuba. |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:00 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Mvgirl wrote: Ive never felt so sad as I do today.That email is not how I wanted to start my day.Its been a rough day. so sad to know they have been lost.But so sad about my moffet because I spent so much time with him last summer.I have been asked to display my photography in March and am planning on doing a collage in honor of Moffet.Although I still hold hope that his transmitter fell off and he is livin large in cuba. Mvgirl, I understand how you feel, it's always hard to lose an osprey, but even harder when you've been close to them. I was at Moffets tagging. I also was at Sheri's tagging in 2008 at the Woods Hole nest, she broke both of her legs before migration and had to be euthanized. In 2009 I had to pick up one of the Woods Hole chicks off the road, minutes after it fledged and was hit by a car (that didn't bother to stop) and killed instantly. But hardest of all for me is when we lose our ospreys to shooting....to many and so senseless. And think about all the ones we don't see...it makes me sick. Rob, with the help of the Peregrine Fund and The International Osprey Foundation, is working hard on a D.R Osprey Conservation Project to educate people there about ospreys and stop the shooting. You can find out more about that on his migration page. I'm hoping with you that Moffet has a bad or lost transmitter, and we will see him in Spring 2011. JAZZEL |
Author: | Mvgirl [ Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:59 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Thank You Jazzel, Means alot to me.Ive been really blue since yesterday.Is a good thing ive got the distraction of the Bear on live cam or things would be worse. I hate the idea of any bird being shot.I hate guns period, on deer or any other living animal.I hope he lost his transmitter.I always tried not to get him too used to me cuz I didnt want him to be too trusting for that reason.But then I think about things.If he was attacked by an owl would that be better to have to go thru a slow death or a fast one.It makes me shiver to think about it all.If he really is gone at least I will always have those memories of cat and mouse we played, or just sitting in the field below his pole hangin out with him. That bird brought so much peace into my life. |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:53 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Mvgirl, owls are part of nature....GUNS ARE NOT....and understand many birds/animals that are shot do not die instantly. Moffet's nest is in the middle of a very active Mass Audubon sanctuary, he was accustomed, from day one to all types of human activity. You did nothing that could have harmed him.... JAZZEL |
Author: | Mvgirl [ Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:05 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
No I know I didnt Jazzel, Im hoping that his pack fell off and he was smart enough to stay out of danger.guess thats what Im trying to say. |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:40 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Mvgirl wrote: No I know I didnt Jazzel, Im hoping that his pack fell off and he was smart enough to stay out of danger.guess thats what Im trying to say. Mvgirl....I understand JAZZEL |
Author: | kittenface [ Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:45 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Moved to UK MIGRATION 2009 ~ 2010 viewtopic.php?f=167&t=489 |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:39 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
Thanks Kitten JAZZEL |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:24 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: OSPREY MIGRATION ~ 2009/2010 |
I just received this email from Rob "Greetings, I'm following in the wing tracks of our Ospreys down to the Dominican Republic, where I'll spend some time with Jorge Brocca, the Prez of the Hispaniola Ornithological Society, and our colleague on our "Don't shoot Ospreys, they don't eat chickens" campaign. Also, rather amazingly, I'm going to get Meadow's transmitter back! A week ago I got an email from someone who has had the transmitter for a year. Of course, they claim they found the bird dead, which is probably true. What's missing from the story is that there was probably smoke rising from the barrel of their rifle when they "found" the bird dead on the ground. So why wait a year to report it? Seems that they didn't understand what "REWARD" means (it's printed on the transmitter). Someone translated and they got in touch. Seems that the Venezuelan National Guard has decided to hand over the American spy device, so we should be getting that one back soon. Isabel's transmitter is still transmitting, but has refused to turn up despite two trips to the pasture where it's signalling away. I think we'll find that one eventually. Along with Meadow's, Hix's, Katy's, and Bea's, we may have an amazing 5 PTTs to redeploy this summer. That's a pretty significant ($20,000) windfall. Yahoo. Our birds are pretty boring at the moment, but at this time of year, boring is good. I updated all the maps (Buck, Penelope, Ozzie, Hudson, Mr. Hannah) for their January locations. The adults should be moving north sometime this month. Penelope is due for her first return, but the youngsters don't seem to get moving until later in the spring. Buck will be down there for another year. Stay warm. -- Rob Bierregaard Biology Dept. UNC-Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte NC 28223 JAZZEL |
Author: | kittenface [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:20 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: USA MIGRATION 2009 ~ 2010 |
Just got this today from rob Mr. Hannah (Nantucket) and Hudson (Westport R) are on the move,heading north. |
Author: | Jazzel26 [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:00 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: USA MIGRATION 2009 ~ 2010 |
Kitten, thanks for the update Here's the complete update from Rob. "At long last, two of our boys are moving north. Mr. Hannah (Nantucket) and Hudson (Westport River) are on the way. Ozzie should get a move on soon, with Penelope likely to linger for another month or two. Buck's down for the long haul, so we won't see him move for about 14 months. Bear with me as I switch the website around to a new 2010 page. I've updated maps for all the birds (Buck, Penelope, Ozzie, Mr. Hannah, and Hudson) on the 2009 maps to include Jan and Feb locations. Hudson is the first to get a map on the 2010 page. I haven't updated Mr. Hannah's maps to include his move north yet. Will get on that soon. You can find all the maps here: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm While I was down in the Dominican Republic last month, I stood on the south shore of Hispaniola and looked out at the vast Caribbean stretching on apparently forever and thought about our young birds, driven by instinct launching off on a 30-hr journey into the unknown. It was a moving moment. Meanwhile, I'm up to my eyeballs in Barred Owls down here in Charlotte. The breeding season is underway and we're busy counting eggs. We've installed a camera in one of our nest boxes, so you can see a live feed from a Charlotte Barred Owl box: http://watch.birds.cornell.edu/nestcams/camera/index. Right now the bird is incubating 3 eggs, so not much will happen for a month, but once the eggs hatch, the camera should be pretty interesting and amusing. Enjoy the long overdue spring!" Rob Bierregaard JAZZEL |
Author: | Mvgirl [ Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:17 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: USA MIGRATION 2009 ~ 2010 |
Tonight I went to Felix Neck to take pictures of the crocus that were sprouting last weekend when I was there. I found no crocus flowers as of yet.But to my pleasure on the way down the road I spotted a large bird on Moffets nest in the middle of the field.Could it be Moffets parents have returned? there were no crocus sprouting up so i started down the path that brought me to where I sat many hours last summer with Moffet. As I got closer the bird flew off the nest.Darn.I didnt get a close look.Could have been just a hawk. I sat down near the office and took pictures of a pair of Geese that have taken up residence there and after some time left to go to my car to go home.I opened the trunk to put my tripod away and heard that familiar cry of the Osprey.peep peep peep! YAY YAY!!!! Osprey are back on Martha's Vineyard. Now I begin to recall that on my way crossing the bridge that goes over the lagoon, many many birds soaring overhead in the lagoon.They were dark and looked like hawks.Maybe so, But would hawks hunt over water? Now im wondering if it wasnt a large group of Osprey as well.I got home and told my mom about it and she smiled, I went to my room and she brought me todays MV Times newspaper which i will share with you all an article. did i say YAY YAY!! http://www.mvtimes.com/marthas-vineyard/news/2010/03/18/birds.php |
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