Subject: Ospreys
Date: Aug 23 13:20:34 2000
From: Cliff Drake - ardea at uswest.net


Hi Tweets,

An addendum to yesterdays post, my Father and I were heading to the Meadow
Point pond when An OSPREY flew just over the trees and followed the road
just in front of my car. I caught up with it and opened my sunroof, I was
able too look up and see it flying straight overhead, thank goodness there
was no traffic! I was on Seaview Ave in front of the marina on the left. On
the right there's a narrow band of trees, then the BNSF tracks, then more
trees on the Sunset Hill Bluff. We stopped in the parking lot next to the
beach and watched it circle over the water for several minutes before it
headed N over Meadow Point. That's four out of five days an Osprey has flown
the same general route at the same time...

Cliff Drake
Seattle, WA
ardea at uswest.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Drake" <ardea at uswest.net>
To: "Tweeters" <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: Ospreys


> Hi all,
>
> There have been some posts about Ospreys recently so I thought I'd add
mine.
> Today (8/22/00) about 11AM I was at the pond at Golden Gardens watching
> ducks molt when I heard and saw two CASPIAN TERNS over the water off
Meadow
> Point. A minute later I spotted an OSPREY farther out over the sound
heading
> NW, seconds after I lost sight of the first a second glided by much closer
> to shore, it circled a few times giving me great views, then headed N
> towards the next point - Richmond Beach?. Yesterday at the same time and
Sat
> at the same time an OSPREY flew over the pond and headed N. Same general
> route at the same general time, am I seeing the same bird?
>
> Saturday a Yearling/young adult Great Blue Heron was wading in the pond
and
> waded out until the water was about mid body and proceeded to bathe. I've
> never seen a heron submerge itself like that before...
>
> Cliff Drake
> ardea at uswest.net
> Seattle, WA
>
>
>