The I sorry at the north end of Canyon Road I bbq Ellensburg arrived over a week ago and was seen at the platform nest on Woodhouse (Ringer?) Road.  It was in the nest this Thursday.  If passing through, it is taking a very long rest.

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Stewart Wechsler<ecostewart at gmail.com> wrote: If I'm not mistaken, years ago I estimated that the pair of Ospreys, that nested on the light post between the West Seattle Bridge and the Ash Grove Cement plant, arrived about April 23rd.  That said, every year I read Tweeters reports I hear of Ospreys "arriving" weeks earlier in different spots in Washington.  I haven't kept careful track of what day I see the first Osprey on that nest, but it is never weeks earlier than that April 23rd.  My thought was that maybe those first reportedly "arriving" were really "passing through", and the first sighted migrants were headed to the most northerly nesting sites.  Does anyone have information on whether the earliest Osprey sightings in Washington are not arriving at nesting sites, but that they may be only passing through to nesting sites the furthest north?  These earliest Ospreys that may be only "passing through" have long been referred to as "early".  If it turns out that all of the earliest sightings are just sightings of those headed the furthest north, maybe we would stop calling them "early", and maybe start calling them something like the "first passer-bys and most northerly destined".
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