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11 Sept. 2006: Moshup has left Martha's Vineyard, a month and a few days after we put his satellite transmitter on him. He made the move when his radio was off (as usual!) and spent the 3rd and 4th around Beach Pond on the CT/RI border. (Not sure about the cartographic skills of the person who named this one! Sure looks like a long way to the beach from there.) Moshup may have flown right over our Rhode Island bird, Comet, who is still hanging around his nest on Conanicut (Jamestown) Island in Narragansett Bay.       Two of our other tagged youngsters spent time fishing freshwater sites in CT and RI, an observation that dovetails very neatly with the behavior we witnessed in adults with failed nests. Several of these birds commuted between their nest areas and inland sites in southern New England prior to migrating. It now seems likely that these birds were going back to fishing holes they discovered as youngsters.       As of 11 Sept., he's still there.

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