**************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************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.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: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.Blake Allison
Lyme, NH 03768-3322
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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