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25 Sept. 2005.
Bluebeard
is definitely on the move. On the 24th he was heading for New Jersey. The
location out over the Atlantic is not a very reliable one, so he may have
gone down the coast, but we've had birds cut the corner from Long Island
to the Jersey shore, so it's not unreasonable that Bluebeard did the same.
This fix is a bit after 09:00, so he probably spent the night on Long
Island.
He pushed south through the day, crossing
Delaware Bay (he was probably counted by the hawk watchers at Cape May),
the Delmarva Peninsula, and Chesapeake Bay. He covered about 270 miles in
a day. His roost for the night was a bit north of the Rappahannock River
on the west shore of Chesapeake Bay.
On the 25th, under the cover of transmitter silence, he
moved south into North Carolina, roosting south of Tarboro.
The Osprey-ometer
reads 575 mi. (926 km) after 6 days of migration.
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