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11
Oct. 2005.
All
three of the birds we are following are involved in some sort of job
action. Homer hasn't moved from the Shenandoah River in nearly three
weeks, Conanicus has found the Zapata swamps in Cuba much to his liking,
and Bluebeard has been biding his time for a week and a half.
It's hard to know what's going on. With Conanicus
and Bluebeard so close together, it's tempting to speculate that weather
has not been conducive to migration, but this is a pretty long time for
there not to have been a change in the wind direction.
Cuban ornithologist Freddy Santana and his
students have been monitoring the Osprey migration for years in
southeastern Cuba, near Santiago. Their record count for one day was 606
Ospreys! We'll check with them to see if indeed migration was slow during
this period.He has flown
1577 mi (2537 km) since he began his migration on the 19th or 20th.
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