I'll add to?Dee's ?Edmonds osprey news report.

On 6/18?I took some photos of an osprey?passing by me in? a normal manner heading south over the Sound as I was standing on Sunset Ave. in Edmonds? When it approached the dive park at Brackett's Landing, it swung towards Sunset Ave.;?then made a low swoop toward the water like an eagle, rather than fluttering above the water like ospreys usually do.?

The osprey picked up something off the beach using the "swoop and scoop" technique one associates with eagles.? I am not sure what the osprey got.?? I suspect it may have been a fish tangled up in eel grass.? Maybe?it is a Japanese osprey?with a fondness for sushi.??

I think I also saw Dee's two osprey today in Edmonds.??My son and I were on the fishing pier?when I photographed one passing southbound over the marina around 3:08pm according to my photos.? It?cruised south on past Pt. Edwards.

At 3:12pm. two more osprey showed up and briefly landed on the tall stadium type light fixture at the south end of the train platform at the Amtrak station.? The two of them then flew circles over downtown Edmonds, working their way northeast.

I know of two local osprey nest: the one behind Dunne Lumber at on Hwy.?99 in Lynnwood (definitely active) and one on the?center field stadium light at the Meadowdale Softball Complex (activity unknown), also in Lynnwood. ?

Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA.





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Just (Monday 4 pm) enjoyed several minutes of watching a pair of Ospreys working a section of shallows a little over a mile north of the Edmonds ferry dock.? Had been seeing one over the past weeks but first time seeing 2 out together.? Usually when I saw one catch something, it immediately flew inland (I'm assuming to a nest somewhere up-hill towards Lynnwood) but not this time.? One caught something and landed in a big lone fir not?far from the beach?and of course a couple of crows immediately came over to hassle it.
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Dee Warnock
Edmonds
bechdee at hotmail.com



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