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9 Sept: Wasting no time or distance, she left the NC coast sometime on the 8th and was out over the Atlantic, just short of the FL coast at 06:24AM, having flown through the night. Between the 1st point for 8 Sept and the second to last on 9 Sept. She was flying a bit over 21 mph. Between the second-to-last and third-to-lost points (both fairly accurate locations) she was flying just under 23 mph. The first point over the Atlantic was just past 9PM on the 8th and 268 miles from our last location in NC. If we estimate she was flying 22 mph that whole time, and if she left the NC coast just west of Cape Lookout, it would have been around 9AM and the whole trip would have taken over 21 hours of non-stop flying. This is about the distance she'll have to cover from Hispaniola to South America, if she migrates that far.       It's actually much more likely that she flew down the coast and got to Cape Fear and headed out over the water there. It seems that Ospreys follow two simple rules: Go south and stay over land if at all possible. When birds get to Cape Fear, the land to the west actually heads north a bit, so they have to abandon the "stay over land" rule and just go south. Five out of 6 of our tagged birds that have gotten to Cape Fear went to Florida out over the ocean. Only Conanicus (RI youngster from '05) got close to Cape Fear and continued over land to Florida.

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