Update -No incubating Osprey at Alum Creek-Tuttle
E-mail from Dick Tuttle:
Hello Everyone,
In my last email on Sunday, April 8, 2007, I had declared that the Ospreys on Alum Creek No. One were incubating. By 1807 that afternoon, the status had changed and incubation has ceased and remains so, as of this morning, Tuesday, April 9.
Remember, that I observed the female being buzzed by another Osprey that Sunday morning, and the first female from No. One wore no bands. The female observed and photographed by Frank Germann and observed by me on Monday, wears a blue band on her left leg. Last year's female also wore a blue band on her left leg (and an aluminum band on her right).
Have we missed a chapter to this story?
The only incubation going on at present are Canada Geese throughout out the area, including those using Platform No. Two. The Ospreys of No. Four are quite active on their platform but have not started incubation.
I am presently back in the bluebirding business. For the first time this year, yesterday, I monitored three small trails to find only one bluebird nest and eleven dead Tree Swallows. I could give Al Gore more to think about since I have seen more winter-killed bluebirds (64) and spring-killed swallows (11) this year than in any of the last thirty-nine, and I am not done counting. I will leave this email and start counting at Delaware State Park. I will provide more tallies later.
It is hard to keep my "science hat" on when things are so depressing. I found four mounds of swallows yesterday in boxes at the Olentangy Environmental Control Center. The birds were sharing body heat since no insects were flying for them to catch. The birds on top were alive, but I am not so sure about the ones on the bottom. I gently closed the boxes without stressing the birds further. I will return to the OECC later this week for the final body count.
Global on, hot or cold, Dick Tuttle
Hello Everyone,
In my last email on Sunday, April 8, 2007, I had declared that the Ospreys on Alum Creek No. One were incubating. By 1807 that afternoon, the status had changed and incubation has ceased and remains so, as of this morning, Tuesday, April 9.
Remember, that I observed the female being buzzed by another Osprey that Sunday morning, and the first female from No. One wore no bands. The female observed and photographed by Frank Germann and observed by me on Monday, wears a blue band on her left leg. Last year's female also wore a blue band on her left leg (and an aluminum band on her right).
Have we missed a chapter to this story?
The only incubation going on at present are Canada Geese throughout out the area, including those using Platform No. Two. The Ospreys of No. Four are quite active on their platform but have not started incubation.
I am presently back in the bluebirding business. For the first time this year, yesterday, I monitored three small trails to find only one bluebird nest and eleven dead Tree Swallows. I could give Al Gore more to think about since I have seen more winter-killed bluebirds (64) and spring-killed swallows (11) this year than in any of the last thirty-nine, and I am not done counting. I will leave this email and start counting at Delaware State Park. I will provide more tallies later.
It is hard to keep my "science hat" on when things are so depressing. I found four mounds of swallows yesterday in boxes at the Olentangy Environmental Control Center. The birds were sharing body heat since no insects were flying for them to catch. The birds on top were alive, but I am not so sure about the ones on the bottom. I gently closed the boxes without stressing the birds further. I will return to the OECC later this week for the final body count.
Global on, hot or cold, Dick Tuttle
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