Never dismiss Osprey in January. There were two teams reporting the species
on the Coquille Valley CBC this year. Multiple teams sometimes report them
on the Coos Bay CBC,l saw two at once a few years ago. I was on a team for
the Yaquina CBC that saw an Osprey at the city water facility. And for
those who would hasten to talk about climate change, there was an Osprey on
the Eugene CBC about 1973.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 7:31 AM Mark Greenfield <sauviemark@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Walking my property yesterday, I noticed a raptor in the distance and
lifted my binoculars to see what it was. I did an immediate double-take —
the first thing I noticed was its head, and with the heavy black eyestripe
my first reaction was, osprey, but of course I knew that could not be, not
in January. When I saw the markings below I knew it wasn’t an osprey, but I
still did not know what it was. Checked Sibley’s and saw it was a third
year bald eagle. Never realized its head was so osprey-like. Nice to learn
something new.
Mark Greenfield
Sauvie Island, Oregon
sauviemark@xxxxxxxxx
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