Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:16:35 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynette Fullerton Subject: Landlubbing Ospreys? In-Reply-To: <016001c4173b$df335890$a9a1c7cf@mdatlasxz1p6g> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi everyone, For about the last week now, I've been watching a pair of ospreys build a nest on the triangular platform of a tower. This tower is on Crownsville Road, not far from the Anne Arundel County Fair Grounds, just kitty-corner to Hawkins Road. As far as I know, there's no open water nearby - the closest I can think of would be across Generals Highway, where Epping Forest and Sherwood Forest are. Is a nest this far away from water very common? Are the closer areas already so saturated that pairs are having to move further out? I would think that feeding young would be a problem. Or maybe there's open water that I'm just not thinking of...I'd love to do more research on this, if people have suggestions... Curious as always, Lynette Fullerton Crownsville/Odenton, AA Co., MD l_fullerton_1999 at yahoo.com ===== "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware--joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." --Henry Miller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================