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Travels so far 8 Oct-19 Nov 09. Moffett has finally left the Island. Hope
he turned out the lights! Moffet was the fourth out of four young tagged on Matha's Vineyard this summer to tackle our corner of the Atlantic in a single flight. He left home around 10:00 on the 8th, flying SSE. He flew non-stop for about 66 hours, covering just over 1,550 miles (2,500 km). He's so tough he didn't even stop to rest in the Bahamas, but kept right on going until he hit the far eastern tip of Cuba. Scroll down for detailed maps of her travels. Jump to the maps new since the last update. |
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1-11 Aug
09.
These are the four nests where we tagged young this
summer and the first week or so of movement from each of the four. Moffet was tagged at Mass Audubon's Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on August 4th. Details on Moffet's movements below. |
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4-11 Aug 09. Moffet fledged a week or so before we caught him in the afternoon of the 4th. |
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8-24 Aug 09 Moffet is the most adventuresome of this year's crop of youngsters. He's been over to James Pond, where he might have bumped into Isabel, and Crocker Pond, Homer's favorite fishing hole during his first summer back from South America. He's also been down to some of the south shore ponds. |
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25 Aug-3 Sep 09. Moffet has left the Island. But only for a couple of day-trips. On the 31st he flew across Vineyard Sound to Naushon Island and on the 1st of September he flew up to Cape Cod, where he spent a few hours at Long Pond. |
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3-7 Sep 09. This was a bit of a more ambitious trip, including an overnight stay on the evening of the 4th up by the Cape Cod Canal. He revisited Long Pond before heading home. |
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7 Sep- 7 Oct 09. Moffet stayed pretty close to home for most of this month, with one quick trip over to Long Pond on Cape Cod. He spent a lot of time around the Vineyard Haven Lagoon, as detailed below. |
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7 Sep- 7 Oct 09. Moffet did a lot of fishing at the Lagoon over the month prior to his migration. Local scouts report Moffet wasn't the only Osprey fishing the lagoon, and at least one human fisherman was also aware of, and taking advantage of, the good fishing there this fall. |
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8-11 Oct 09. Moffet set the new juvenile
Osprey migration marathon record with this trip. He left home around 10:00 on the 8th, flying SSE. He flew non-stop for about 66 hours, covering just over 1,550 miles (2,500 km). |
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11-18 Oct 09. Moffet seems to have set anchor
here. With all the momentum he seemed to have, I expected him to keep
right on moving towards Hispaniola. The way he is making short moves, with no particular direction, suggests that he may be done migrating. This would be fine with us, as one of the alternative would be to move over to Hispaniola--probably the Dominican Republic |
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17-19 Oct 09. Moffet is working rivers in the area, which seems to have a very low human population density. |
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19 Oct-20 Nov 09. Moffet is exploring an area about 20 mi. (33 km) across. Most of his time has been spent up and down a small river that cuts through the eastern tip of Cuba. |
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