Sanford - 2010
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Moffet -- Mr. Hannah -- Ozzie -- Penelope -- Rafael
2010 maps for: Belle -- Buck -- Gunny -- Hudson -- Mr. Hannah -- Neale -- North Fork Bob -- Penelope -- Sanford -- Sr. Bones -- Thatch
2011 maps: Belle -- Buck -- Henrietta -- Katbird -- North Fork Bob -- Pemi -- Saco -- Sanford -- Sr. Bones -- Snowy -- Thatch -- Tucker
2012 maps: Art -- Belle -- Bridger -- Chip -- Cutch -- Jill -- North Fork Bob -- Rammie -- Snowy -- Sr. Bones -- Thatch
2013 maps: Art -- Belle -- Bridger -- North Fork Bob -- Rammie -- Snowy -- Sr. Bones
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	2-12 Oct. Sanford is on the move, and may already be done with migration!      He wasted no time in getting to Cuba, and then, after waiting out some bad weather, threw a curve ball at us and snuck in the back door to the Bahamas.      I'd be really happy to see him spend the rest of the winter right there, after the bad luck we've been having getting birds across the Caribbean. Scroll down for some maps of his summer movement (although most of this is over on Gunny's map), or Jump ahead to the start of migration.
	The first week: 7-14 May. I've plotted Gunny and Sanford's data together so we can compare their foraging ranges.      Just like last year, early in the season the Osprey are feeding heavily on the herring run on the upper reaches of the East Branch of the Westport River.
	15-21 May 2010: Both birds are still working the East Branch, but both birds are wandering a bit.
	15-21 May 2010: Pretty much the same thing this week.
	7-28 May 2010: Here are three  weeks' locations for all three adult males we're following this spring. All three are travelling about the same distances from their nests. Their foraging ranges are about 10 mi (16 km) across.
	29 May-4 June 2010: The herring run on the East Branch is clearly over. Both Gunny and Sanford are mostly working  freshwater ponds this week. From here on for the rest of the summer, see Gunny's map page.
Until Gunny and Sanford migrate, I'm posting joint maps for both over on Gunny's page.
	2-3 Oct 2010 Sanford is migrating. He started off with a lazy 60 mile day, following the coast westward into the oxymoronic Connecticut.      He cranked it up a bit on the 3rd, making it through six states (not too hard to do when Delaware and New Jersey are in the mix) and covering 333 miles (536 km).      He crossed the Chesapeake between 5 and 6 PM on the 3rd.
	9 May-4 June 2010: Favorable winds have kept him going long and  hard over these two days. It's unusual fpr a bird to leave the South Carolina coast and cut off a bit of the Georgia Bight. Typically, we see this out of birds that get to Cape Lookout or Cape Fear. Most birds that find themselves on the South Carolina coast stay over land all the way to Florida.
	5-8 Oct 2010: Sanford made landfall in Florida about 10:30 PM on the evening of the 5th. He would have hit the coast a bit northeast of Orlando.      When his GPS turned back on at 10 AM on the 6th, he was pretty far south, which suggests that he didn't stop migrating as soon as he arrived on the coast, but pushed on a bit before resting.      He was a bird on a mission, and kept right on down the coast and on to Cuba, where he arrived just before 7 PM.
	8-10 Oct 2010: He spent a couple of days around these two reservoirs, waiting for the weather to change.
	6-12 Oct 2010: After five days moving east through Cuba, Sanford threw a real curveball at us, heading north into the Bahamas on the 12th. We've never seen a bird to this before. Although we know Ospreys overwinter in the Bahamas, none of the birds we've tagged has. The only birds we've had even pass through the Bahamas have been juveniles arriving from the north after 50-60 hour flights over the Atlantic.      Did he get blown up here by the incoming hurricane? I'm pretty sure he moved a couple of days before the storm got to Cuba.      It will be really interesting to see if he stays there or continues south.      Stay tuned!
	8-12 Oct 2010: Sanford arrived on Andros Island at 4 PM on the 12th and settled right down.
	12-18 Oct 2010: This really has the feel of a bird that has arrived on his wintering grounds. After a very directed flight, he settled down in a pretty restricted area and hasn't wandered much over six days.      If this is his wintering grounds, it would seem to be about as safe a spot as one could hope for. It's a pretty remote area with no signs of humans nearby, lots of shallow water--perfect for Osprey hunting, no Great-horned Owls, and nothing to fly into (Ospreys do tangle with power lines sometime, which may have been what happened to Little Ricky over in Miami).      If this is his wintering ground, one wonders why take the back door route through Cuba to get there? It may have been the way he got there on his first trip south, but since then he's surely discovered the shortcut when he headed north in his first spring. Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice once noted.      He is only 1,230 straight-line miles (1,981 km) from his nest, but it was 1,800 miles (2,897 km) as this Osprey flew. Thanks to his two days covering more than 400 miles (650 km) each, his average ground covered was a very healthy 200 miles (322 km)/day of migration (there were 9 of them).
	15-31 Oct 2010: Sanford is definitely home for the duration. Most of his activity is restricted to an area just 1.6 miles (2.6 km) across.
	1-30 Nov 2010: Sanford wandered a bit more in November than October, but still stayed close to home, as do all the adults we've followed south.
	1-31 Dec 2010: The usual winter map for an adult.

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