Blake,

Ospreys have not nested in the UV since I moved up here in '75. There was a platform on the CT River between E. Thetford and Lyme for many years, but they never used it. There was one colony Sweat Meadows off the northwest shore Lake Umbagog in extreme northern NH. Back in seventy-five, I recall that they did not nest on Lake Champlain either. 

In the UV, I've seen them as early the first week in April and as late as the first week in November.

Ted

On Apr 24, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Blake Allison wrote:

> An osprey passed over the site yesterday when I was there around 1:00 p.m.  There have been other osprey sightings in the Upper Valley this week. One was reported mid-week from Post Pond in Lyme, and another was seen at Hanover's Occom Pond around 12:30 this afternoon. 
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> An influx of osprey occurred about this time last year. Back then I asked NH Audubon's raptor specialist Chris Martin about that osprey presence. He thought they likely were migrants passing through. I thought he also said there had been no confirmed nesting of osprey in this section of the Connecticut River reported in the last couple of decades. Pursuing that, I came up with a somewhat dated article,, August 2010, about osprey that appeared in Northern Woodlands. Maybe Chris or someone at VCE or Audubon VT has more recent info. In any case, here is a link to the article:
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> An Osprey Takes the Plunge | The Outside Story
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> Flyfishing from a canoe in a small headwater pond at the tippity-top of the Connecticut River is usually a quiet experience. That’s why the sudden splash caused me ...
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> Worth noting that there is an osprey nesting platform in NH Fish & Game's Wilder WMA in Lyme. In my ten years here, I've never seen even an attempt to build a nest there.
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> On Friday, April 24, 2015 4:48 PM, Kathleen Corrigan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Went to Lake Runnymede about 10 am today and saw the large number of Yellow-Rumped Warblers Chris Rimmer reported yesterday.  There were also at least 100 tree swallows over the water.  Also followed a large raptor with my binoculars.  I believe it was an osprey. The wing shape seemed right and it had the white head with a dark stripe.  I wonder whether anyone else has seen this there, or am I wrong in my identification?
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