I really enjoy your cam and applaud you for everything you have done to make this happen. I first looked at this site on Monday the 22nd of June.
The first time the male brought a meal that day, he delivered a headless and beat-up bunker. It looked like it was used bait from a striped bass fisherman. The female refused it. It then looked like the male did not return for several hours. This would indicate to me that food was hard to find. I have studied the NYS DEC osprey fledging data and found that the survival of young osprey is (on the average) extremely low on the eastern end of Long Island. However, there are nests that produce well. For instance, the next at the intersection of Route 24 and 105 in Riverhead averages over three chicks per year. The east end average is less than 0.4 chicks.
With your wonderful recorded observations, it may be possible to quantify the number of times per day (or the daily weight of edible food) an osprey delivered to the nest. This might require many approximations. However, you seem to have the raw data. I would really look forward to helping you use it in a deferent way.Please let me know if this is a possibility.
I really enjoy your cam and applaud you for everything you have done to make this happen. I first looked at this site on Monday the 22nd of June.
The first time the male brought a meal that day, he delivered a headless and beat-up bunker. It looked like it was used bait from a striped bass fisherman. The female refused it. It then looked like the male did not return for several hours. This would indicate to me that food was hard to find. I have studied the NYS DEC osprey fledging data and found that the survival of young osprey is (on the average) extremely low on the eastern end of Long Island. However, there are nests that produce well. For instance, the next at the intersection of Route 24 and 105 in Riverhead averages over three chicks per year. The east end average is less than 0.4 chicks.
With your wonderful recorded observations, it may be possible to quantify the number of times per day (or the daily weight of edible food) an osprey delivered to the nest. This might require many approximations. However, you seem to have the raw data. I would really look forward to helping you use it in a deferent way.Please let me know if this is a possibility.
Sincerely – Roger C. Tollefsen