baygirl
Description
SW (middle)platform along the beach cove at James Farm Ecological Preserve, plaque in memory of Anne Bartow on pole
1 Monitoring Group Affiliations
2025 Season Data
Nest Status
active
Clutch Status
hatched
Young Status
brooding
Clutch history milestones
April 3, 2025
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Brood history milestones
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Activity log
| Date | Watcher | Adults | Eggs | Young | Observations | Photo | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 3 | baygirl | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | 1 on built up nest, 1 in favored tree eating fish | ||||||
| April 10 | baygirl | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Both in their guard tree, plastic trash in nest , the preserves nests have more trash this year than yrs past | ||||||
| April 20 | baygirl | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Observed incubation, and some tussling with “next door birds “ | ||||||
| April 29 | baygirl | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | No signs of incubation, some human disturbance as there’s a float dock that washed up in the marsh last year, it’s very close to the platform, and was not removed so now part of the landscape, it attracts people to stand on it to look at ospreys and they are not settling down, same issue last year, caused very late nesting with female abandoning chick at 4 weeks, it did not survive | ||||||
| May 4 | baygirl | 2 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | Finally confirm incubation, pair is disturbed by people too close to nest at this increasingly busy beach | ||||||
| May 18 | baygirl | 2 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | Both at nest territory, male flew around trees, but very windy so no fish delivery, female deep in nest | ||||||
| May 25 | baygirl | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | 1 deep | ||||||
| June 1 | baygirl | 2 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | Incubating but people are taking digs out into the marsh, female was flushed off nest , so what else is new | ||||||
| June 7 | baygirl | 0 | N | N | |||
| Note: | No behaviors seen , no adults seen, light rain, hoping just Deep in nest | ||||||
| June 8 | baygirl | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | See just one deep, hear second calling to passing spreys, but it’s on far side of woods | ||||||
| June 12 | baygirl | 1 | N | U | |||
| June 15 | baygirl | 2 | N | U | feeding | ||
| Note: | Both adults in nest but people flushed make off and female hunkered down | ||||||
| June 20 | baygirl | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | It appears female is flat in nest at dusk, assuming there’s eggs or hatchlings | ||||||
| June 21 | baygirl | 1 | N | U | |||
| Note: | Brooding behavior | ||||||
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