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["Jim & Judy Phillips" <cne01663@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Wallace,
We have had plenty of summer reports for ospreys along the Bluestone & New
Rivers here in Summers County, WV but we haven't confirmed a nesting.
Again this winter, we have had at least 5 bald eagles on Bluestone Lake, so
we hope to confirm a nest this year. A Pipestem park guest took a picture of
a nest last July that has to be osprey or eagle but I haven't been able to
confirm. Whenever my days off roll around it is windy, snowy, icy, sleety,
rainy or even nasty and I haven't packed up the canoe to check. Maybe, I
will soon.
A couple of your clubmembers from Abingdon stayed at the park this week.
Jim Phillips
Pipestem, WV
cne01663@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bristol Birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:09 AM
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Re: First Osprey nests in Buchanan County


>
> Roger Mayhorn:
>
> WOW!!  This could be Southwest Virginia's or Western Virginia's first ever
> nesting record for the Osprey!!!!  What a tremendous discovery !!
>
> I didn't see mention that Ospreys are at the nest, working on the nest, or
> appear to be on eggs.  Of course it is too early for eggs and Ospreys have
> probably not returned to the region (we do have a few winter records).
>
>  I suppose you found what you believed to be last season's nest and will
be
> watching for the return of the birds.  Excellent !  What rules out these
> from having been Bald Eagle's nests from previous years ?  Of course
eagles
> will be present at nest sites at this time of year.
>
> I can't find a published record for Osprey nesting south and or west of
the
> New River in Southwest Virginia.  For that matter, I have not seen a
record
> for Western Virginia !  My most recent information is "A Guide to the
Birds
> of the New River Gorge Area" (1990);  Clapp's "Egg Dates for Virginia
Birds"
> (1997); Kinzie's "Birds of Roanoke Valley" (1985); Decker's "......Smyth
> County" (1999), Peake's "...Virginia Cumberlands" (2001); Murray's
> ".....Rockbridge County..." (1957); Mellinger's ".....Rockingham County"
> (1998); Larner's ".....Augusta County" (1998) and the Virginia "blue book"
> (1987), "red book" (1979) and "green book" (1952).  None mention nesting
in
> the Ridge and Valley Region of Virginia.
>
> If there have been earlier nestings in Western Virginia one would assume
> they have occured in the upper drainages of the Shenandoah, Roanoke, New
> River or one of the Tennessee tributaries.
>
> Perhaps, Roger Clapp of the U.S. National Museum in Washington (who is a
> subscriber to Bristol Birds Net) will be able to post anything that would
be
> useful about more recent nesting records of the Osprey in Western
Virginia.
>
> Ed Talbott:  do you have a date for the fledgling you saw being fed by an
> adult last year?  This is very valuable information.  I am sure Clapp
would
> like to have any such data for the breeding bird book he is working on for
> Virginia.
>
> Let us know something soon.  We're excited to learn more.
>
> This species may be part of an expansion of the range into the Levisa and
> Big Sandy drainage from Kentucky.  This is where we need to know something
> more about the breeding status of this species in Eastern Kentucky and
that
> drainage.
>
> Thanks for the great discovery.  Keep up the really good birding work in
> Buchanan County and the region.  Go guys go!
>
> Let's go birding.....
>
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol
>
>
>
>
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