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12-20 Aug 08.
L.R. continues to explore. The northern-most points on this
map are near Kent, DE, about 25 miles (40 km) NW of his nest. He made
this trip on the 18th, outbound at 10AM and returning at 7PM.
To the south he has been fishing around the Delaware
Seashore State Park, between Indian River and Rehobeth Bays.
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20-26 Aug 08.
L.R. is twiddling his talons, waiting for the urge to kick in. Four of
the five other Delaware young I have tagged started their migrations in
the first week of September, so it shouldn't be long. Lew (tagged in the
same nest and therefore most likely L.R.'s brother) headed south on 4
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27 Aug - 7 Sep 08.
L.R. has settled down around Rehoboth and Indian River Bays. All of his
locations in September were around these two bays.
Any day now.... |
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7-30 Sep 08.
L.R. left Rehoboth Bay and revisited some of his boyhood haunts up near
his nest toward the end of the month. |
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1-6 Oct. 08.
L.R. succumbed to the urge to head south on the 6th. |
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7 Oct 08.
L.R. only flew about 70 mi (120 km) south before settling down for the
night on Virginia's Atlantic coast.
He got an early start on the 7th. By the time we got
our first signal from him (at 10:00) he was well into North Carolina. He
probably stayed over land to Cape Charles and crossed the mouth of the
Chesapeake there (where the '?' is).
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7 Oct 08.
L.R. was over Albemarle Sound around 9:30, heading pretty much due
south. He passed over the Outer Banks beaches at 12:00. By the time we
got our last signal from L.R. at 20:00, he had turned west a bit and was
aimed for landfall in Florida.
Over the 10 hours his transmitter was signaling, he
covered 317 mi (510 km), averaging almost 32 mph, which is fast for a
migrating Osprey. At 10:00 he had already covered 129 mi (208 km) from
his 6 Oct roost. Assuming he was making 30+ mph, he must have started
migrating at 06:00, which is unusual. Most of our birds start their
daily migration later in the morning.
By 20:00 he had covered 450 mi (724 km) since beginning
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7 Oct 08.
These are the wind streams that L.R. was flying with on the 7th. His
flight path very neatly matches these wind directions.
He was clearly going with the flow. |
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7 Oct 08.
(Cumulative miles are indicated at each day's roost.)
L.R. probably hit the Florida coast around 04:00
(assuming he continued on his 31 mph pace). He was probably flying for
22 hours non-stop, which is impressive, but we've seen other birds go
for over 50 hours of non-stop flight, so this was a bit of a cake walk,
especially with those tailwinds the whole way.
We don't know exactly where he hit the coast, but by
10:00 he was east of the St. Johns River (a favorite spot for migrating
and resident Ospreys) heading south.
He stopped migrating around 13:00 and settled down for
a bit of well-deserved rest.
He moved 725 mi (1,418 km) including 460 mi (746 km) over the
Atlantic between dawn on the 7th and 13:00 on the 8th. |
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9-11 Oct 08.
After the big move on the 7th and 8th, L.R. moseyed a mere 91 mi (146
km) on the 9th. On the 10th he flew another 130 mi (209 km) on the 10th
and just 40 mi (64 km) more on the 11th.
At this point he was in North Miami Beach. |
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11-31 Oct 08.
Looking north here--L.R. seems to have found North Miami to his liking.
Looking closely at the areas he's frequenting, I'm not
very happy to see him playing in so much traffic! |
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1-30 Nov 08.
L.R. has definitely settled down. |
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1-31 Dec 08.
Time for someone with a telephoto down there in North Miami to get to
work and get us a picture! |
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1-31 Jan 09.
I hope we'll see some version of this map for another 14 months or so,
at which point, he'll head back up to DE. |
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