[texbirds] Fwd: Re: Summer Ospreys

  • From: Robert Reeves <birder.reeves@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:11:30 -0500

I misread Larry's post.  He referenced the time at which BLOT was
published, not when Oberholser made his observations.
Robert R.
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From: "Robert Reeves" <birder.reeves@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jun 28, 2013 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [texbirds] Summer Ospreys
To: <lmj6464@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Were coastal waters extensively polluted with chlorinated hydrocarbons
during the early 20th Century?

Robert Reeves
Pflugerville
On Jun 28, 2013 9:16 PM, <lmj6464@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Texbirders,
>
> There has been enough comment on summer Ospreys on the coast that I
> decided to do a little research on this rather than shooting from the hip
> as I did in this morning's post.
>
> The 2004 edition of the TOS Handbook of Texas birds states that Osprey "is
> a very rare and local breeder in the Pineywoods and along the upper coast,
> typically near larger reservoirs.  Nonbreeding individuals are rare summer
> visitors along the coast...."  I can confirm that Judith and I saw an
> Osprey on a nest at Toledo Bend Reservoir in Sabine County last Friday.
>
> Oberholser lists two old nesting records, one from Jefferson County (Port
> Arthur) in 1925 and one from Cameron County (Port Isabel) in 1908-10.  He
> also shows several sight records all along the coast during summer.  His
> records were pretty sparse because at the time of publication the Osprey
> population had crashed due to the chlorinated hydrocarbon problem.
>
> In his 2007 checklist for the South Texas Brushlands (a TPWD publication)
> John Arvin lists Ospreys as "uncommon" from early May to late September on
> the lower coast (from Kenedy County south).
>
> There is no question that one or two Ospreys can be found with a little
> searching in the Cayo del Oso-JFK Causeway-Laguna Madre area in Corpus all
> through the summer.  I have never seen any nesting, although there have
> been a couple of nesting platforms built.  As Mark Barosik suggested, I
> assume these are immature birds that have not gone north.  However, nesting
> Osprey seems to be a good thing to keep a lookout for anywhere on the coast.
>
> Larry Jordan
> Corpus Christi
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