baygirl
Description
Bethany Marina private channel marker green #3
1 Monitoring Group Affiliations
2025 Season Data
Nest Status
productive
Clutch Status
hatched
Young Status
fledged
Clutch history milestones
March 24, 2023
unknown
April 11, 2023
Brood history milestones
unknown
July 22, 2023
unknown
2
Activity log
| Date | Watcher | Adults | Eggs | Young | Observations | Photo | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 20 | baygirl | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | 1 in nest, lots of nest hopping amongst the 3 close nests | ||||||
| March 21 | baygirl | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Continuing to see just 1 osprey on nest | ||||||
| March 26 | baygirl | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Just 1 osprey on nest off and on, appears to be a male, the rest of the colony has filled in the other nearby nests | ||||||
| April 9 | baygirl | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Consistently seeing just 1 bird | ||||||
| April 9 | baygirl | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | Finally see 1 deep in nest, there’s no perch off nest for this pair so it’s hard to catch both together but alas they have been together! | ||||||
| April 24 | baygirl | 2 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | New platform placed in water near this platform , barge left at new platform, male from this nest perched on new platform, female incubating , concerned about overcrowding and fighting should a new pair claim the newly placed platform in this busy waterway! | ||||||
| May 25 | baygirl | 2 | N | U | |||
| Note: | Male on new waterway platform that was placed very close to this longtime platform , no permit or permission was issued by state representative for army corps of engineers, Droney Bulkheading company placed the platform for free so they could park their barge there for free, the platform may cause territorial issues next season , or maybe become a nice guard perch, it has no drainage in the nest box so will not be a safe nest , female was deep in BM3 platform calling for fish | ||||||
| June 2 | baygirl | 1 | N | U | |||
| Note: | 1 feeding in nest | ||||||
| June 6 | baygirl | 1 | N | U | feeding | ||
| Note: | Female feeding ,can’t see chicks yet | ||||||
| June 6 | baygirl | 2 | N | U | feeding | ||
| Note: | Male and in nest while female feeds | ||||||
| June 13 | baygirl | 2 | N | 2 | feeding, young laying down | ||
| Note: | Male brought fish, female feeding at least 2 chicks visible | ||||||
| June 28 | baygirl | 1 | N | 2 | young laying down | ||
| Note: | Still 2 chicks with female | ||||||
| July 12 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Flapping alone in nest but too young for fledge | ||||||
| July 18 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | young laying down | ||
| Note: | Adult on the new illegally placed platform next to this platform, chick laying and calling, about 7 weeks old | ||||||
| July 20 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Chick is self feeding, male on nest because his guard perch is close to people crabbing , no female seen recently, chick appears about 7 weeks | ||||||
| July 22 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Male dropped a fish for full grown chick, it’s self feeding, female away fir at least a week | ||||||
| July 22 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | young laying down | ||
| Note: | Chick in nest testing after eating, male on nearby. New platform | ||||||
| July 23 | baygirl | 2 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Female returned and feeding large chick now, male on nearby new illegally placed platform, too close to this one | ||||||
| July 24 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Adult dropped fish for very large chick, self feeding , have not seen much exercising | ||||||
| July 26 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Large chick almost always alone now, did not see feeding this morning , it has not been exercising but does get up on the platform perch | ||||||
| July 27 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Male dropped fish for very large chick , chick mantling and eating with gusto | ||||||
| July 28 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | No feeding observed during multiple nest checks this morning chick should be fledging very soon | ||||||
| July 28 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Large chick mantling over fish after adult fish drop , most likely the male as female has not been seen recently | ||||||
| July 28 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Chick alone as usual | ||||||
| July 29 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Chick must have had a fish drop as it is eating in nest , can’t see the adult males perch from my home vantage point , can only see the nest | ||||||
| July 29 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Large chick alone, quiet | ||||||
| July 30 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Assume male dropped fish at 10:28, chick mantles over it adult feaked on platform perch then flew towards male favored, but not visible, guard perch , chick devoured the fish portion in less than 10 min, its extremely hot today, seeing wing droop | ||||||
| July 31 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Helicoptering above the nest prior to heavy rain, staying in nest for the storm , hope it was fed earlier, storm may last 2 days. | ||||||
| July 31 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Chick has been helicoptering , always Aline, was scrapping for fish bit in nest, layed down , high wind tonight and tmr, temp drop, might fledge soon | ||||||
| August 1 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Unable to see males guard perch, but chick is calm in nest on a windy cool day | ||||||
| August 3 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Male dropped a fish, chick eating | ||||||
| August 4 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Male dropped fish, chick eating st 11 am | ||||||
| August 6 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Chick may have fledged, unable to correct date fir data collection | ||||||
| August 7 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Chick has fledged and is on the nearby Channel marker 9 platform this morning. I have not seen those ospreys in a few weeks so hopefully there won’t be any aggression towards it AND it gets to its natal nest safely today | ||||||
| August 9 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Fledgling has moved over to the newly paved non permitted platform where the make perches, observed self feeding earlier today | ||||||
| August 14 | baygirl | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Was called by observer who saw chick jump or fly into the water, was flailing and disappeared before they got their boat out to save it, I searched the nearby marsh and did not see it, was a week flighted so not sure it had strength to get itself in the air | ||||||
| August 15 | baygirl | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Searched by boat, all marsh edges in the area, unable to see into the new deep and illegally placed platform where the fledgling has been perching after fledgling, and can not see into the deep marsh grasses, I assume it has died like many others | ||||||
| August 16 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Found the fledgling, returned to nest, then saw where it hangs out, on top of last power line on the road ! | ||||||
| August 19 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Fledgling flying from tree to tree, calling for fish in rain storm , likely a very hungry bird as the weather has been very tough for adults to fish for. 2 days with more bad weather to come | ||||||
| August 20 | baygirl | 0 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Fledgling flying off and on the new platform near the natal nest, calling for fish, no adult seen | ||||||
| August 22 | baygirl | 1 | N | 1 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Late dinner dropped by papa, almost dark! Observed 2 other feedings today, this youngster needed a good feeding following 3 days of stormy conditions | ||||||
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