No incubation at Alum Creek #1 - Tuttle
E-Mail from Dick Tuttle:
Photo by Frank Germann
Hello Everyone,
This will be short since I am in-between checking two bluebird trails -- trying to find eggs.
TM and his females have failed once again to sustain incubation at Alum Creek No. One. It did not look good Monday; then Frank Germann, Dick Phillips and I agreed last night at sundown that they were not incubating; and they certainly were not incubating this morning (Wednesday, April 18, 2007).
As was the case last night, this morning a third Osprey appeared and TM pursued it but not in a hostile fashion. They sat in separate trees in a "stand off" when I left this morning. If TM remains friendly with a second female, I will name her Carmen, and if these birds continue to show behaviors that remind me of humans, I will abandon them and go back to fishing. (Just kidding)
Raptor on, Dick Tuttle
Photo by Frank Germann
Hello Everyone,
This will be short since I am in-between checking two bluebird trails -- trying to find eggs.
TM and his females have failed once again to sustain incubation at Alum Creek No. One. It did not look good Monday; then Frank Germann, Dick Phillips and I agreed last night at sundown that they were not incubating; and they certainly were not incubating this morning (Wednesday, April 18, 2007).
As was the case last night, this morning a third Osprey appeared and TM pursued it but not in a hostile fashion. They sat in separate trees in a "stand off" when I left this morning. If TM remains friendly with a second female, I will name her Carmen, and if these birds continue to show behaviors that remind me of humans, I will abandon them and go back to fishing. (Just kidding)
Raptor on, Dick Tuttle
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