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3 Jan. 2006
Homer is keeping me
busy far longer than any other Osprey we have tracked. Most have settled
down by early November. Not our boy Homer!
On November 30th he moved north and west into the
mountains. He spent a month there and then got the urge to move again. He
moved south to the shores of Lake Maracaibo and and then east to a small
reservoir for only a day. He continued moving east for the first three
days of the new year.
This is what I've always expected young Ospreys
would do on their first visit to the wintering grounds--arrive and then
wander around in search of the perfect fishing hole. Because they don't
migrate back in their second spring, they have a year and a half to find
just the right spot, which they can rely upon as an adult. So far the
birds we have tagged as juveniles have apparently been lucky and not had
to wander much. Jaws, last year, found the perfect spot as soon as he hit
South America. This year, Conanicus found a spot in Cuba much to his
liking and is still there. Homer, it would seem, is pretty hard to please
and got a full dose of all the migration genes floating around the Osprey
population.
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