WOW! First I've seen in WEEKS!!!

[elleng]

[catbyte]

1. Please forgive me for asking, but what is it? It doesn't look like the birds

we have in Michigan. Thanks!

[MontanaMama]

3. It's an Osprey!

The slang term is Fish Hawk because they’re fish eaters. No forgiveness needed for asking! I’ll bet you have an Osprey or two in MI.

[elleng]

5. YES, Mama!

First I've caught in ages!

[MontanaMama]

7. Our Osprey are in and out

of the area at the moment. I wonder where they go?

[elleng]

8. South/central America! Mexico, Florida.

Some are tagged, not mine, but there are specialists in Montana who follow them.

I've not seen mine too much due to foliage (and of course due to 'early' geese.) They'll leave here around end of August/into Sept.

[MontanaMama]

9. Iris is a vagabond lately.

I don’t think she’s tagged. But, her nest in Hellgate canyon in hers!

[elleng]

11. Yes she's tagged, called the OLDEST!

[MontanaMama]

13. I didn't know she was tagged!

They say she’s an old girl…and as you say, maybe the oldest. Waiting for her to come back each spring is a tradition in this house.

[catbyte]

14. Thank you!

I don't believe I've ever seen one here. I've seen plenty of hawks and falcons (including a Peregrine pair that nested on the roof of our building in Grand Rapids, MI many moons ago.)

Thanks again!

[elleng]

4. OSPREY!

[multigraincracker]

16. Back in the early and mid-60s I saw lots of them

at Flechers Flooding near Alpena. There were tons of dead trees sticking out of the water and the fishing was great. At least 5 or 6 Ospreys nesting then. I went back last year and all of the trees hard been removed. Saw Eagles but no Ospreys this time.

[Demovictory9]

2. A falcon?

[elleng]

6. Osprey

[70sEraVet]

10. Is preys are a pretty common sight in my part of Tennessee, but they leave for the winter.

We're in Stewart County, pretty close to Land Between the Lakes.

[elleng]

12. They leave here, southern MD, for the winter too!

[70sEraVet]

15. We always have seagulls in the winter. I don't know where they come from - - Great Lakes, maybe?

You probably have gulls year round.