When I saw Jimmy's message, I thought how interesting that we'd see gatherings
of Osprey around the same time - here about 11 am on July 27. There were four,
very loud Osprey circling above our house Monday in SE Roseburg, not far from
the South Umpqua River.
Well, the migrating Turkey Vultures are reported gathering all over now, and
they are another migrating bird of (dead) prey.
Mikeal Jones
826 SE Brockway Ave
Roseburg OR 97470
(541) 673-1859
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On Jul 28, 2015, at 9:50 AM, James Billstine <billstinj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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From: James Billstine <billstinj@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:39 PM
Subject: Ospreys
To: "obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Today at football practice 3 Ospreys were putting on a show. They were
circling and shrieking and at least one was chasing another. It's interesting
to me how much everyone on our team, coaches included, take breaks to watch
them. One of the boys sincerely commented," They're so entertaining to watch.
Mr. Billstine, I'm going to become a birdwatcher too."
There are some smaller birds which were repeatedly returning to the lower
part of the osprey nest; I think there may be a second nest. I would guess by
their gestault that they were house finches. Tomorrow I'll bring my scope
down and see if I can deduce what is going on.
Also, on the note of Ospreys, the one I took pictures of in my blog, after it
had finished eating it's fish, flew low over the water and splashed it's
talons in maybe three of four times. Maybe it was going after other fish? But
there wasn't any hovering, and they didn't look like there was a real "dive"
on any of them. Interesting, and for the sake of anthropomorphising, I would
say it was washing it's hands after a meal!
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James Billstine
http://birdsandbrawn.blogspot.com/
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James Billstine
http://birdsandbrawn.blogspot.com/
