GREAT BAY OSPREY STEWARDS
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COLBY SITE LOG
05/15
09
BH
14:40  F sitting low in nest for next hour.  M arrived about 20 minutes later and hung around for almost a half hour.  In 2 brief forays M and F each (?) brought back sticks which they arranged in the nest.  
05/10
DK
09:30 Pond very quiet.  Upon arrival to pond, observed F sitting deep in nest.  Only head visible.  No M in sight.  3 great blue heron nests south very high in dead pines.  No activity for 30 minutes - only an occasional call from F looking skyward.  Waited another 15 minutes, no change.  10:15 Left area.
05/01
BH
15:00 F sitting in nest for next half hour.  No sign of M.  16:00 F sitting or moving around in nest for next half hour.  M present: flying, perching on trees, soaring, circling overhead, pausing at the nest and finally sitting on a nearby branch for the last 10 minutes.
04/29
BH
14:55 F sitting on nest for 30 minutes.  No sign of other ospreys.
04/21
SM++
A.M. Pair of ospreys on nest at Longmarsh Preserve.
04/18
BH
14:15 Water everywhere after the Nor'easter, but the pond level was down almost 2' because a section of the beaver dam washed away.  For ~1 hour F was sitting in the nest & M was hanging around the pond, landing in different trees, flying by the nest & twice landing on the nest.  14:32 with both M & F on the nest, a 3rd osprey flew over the nest, then away.
04/13
DH
14:30 Osprey (F?) sitting low in nest apparently incubating.  No sign of M.  
04/13
BH
09:10 F sitting low in nest.  09:20 M? flew into view from east, flew by nest to tree on west shore.  F left nest, flew to M in tree, both flying, landing in trees on west shore.  09:24 M? flew off to north; F? flew south with fish? in talons.  09:30 Osprey back in nest, sitting low.
04/06
DK
14:00  4" of snow on the trail.  Pond open water. Female on nest; male perched ~50 yds north in dead pine.   Both birds calling - heard 3rd osprey north at the far end of the pond.  Both flew off north & F returns to nest with twig - nest repair.  Male returns empty handed & perched in same tree.  Did not see 3rd osprey. - might have been circling high over north end of pond.  Lots of ducks and geese on open water.  Two great blue herons on south side of pond.  A beaver strayed a little too far from the pond - appeared that a coyote? had a feast.