{"id":1936,"date":"2011-06-15T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2011-06-16T01:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T08:45:42","slug":"osprey%e2%80%99s-annus-horribilis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"Ospreys\u2019 annus horribilis"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that 2011 is an annus horribilis<\/em> for ospreys along the West Arm of Kootenay Lake. Normally there might be 20 or 30 nesting pairs on the stretch of water between Balfour and Nelson (there is variation: in 2009 there were 17). In late May this year, a survey by Janice Arndt and Elaine Moore found only three nests (two of which were inland). In early June, I searched a stretch of the Arm and found no osprey nests where there had been many in the past.<\/p>\n

In early May, many ospreys had arrived at the Lake and started housekeeping just as they had done in other years. But by late May most nests were gone. What happened?\u00a0We think we know, but would appreciate further insights.<\/p>\n

High winds destroy nests<\/strong>
\nI had been monitoring a nest in front of my place and had made quite a few postings about it. I returned from a field trip on May 14 to find the nest gone and adjacent wind damage. Those birds have not returned. Janice Arndt monitored an osprey nest on a dolphin seen from her home. It was destroyed by high winds on May 13 and 14. Charlie Zinkan watched the nest at Sunshine Bay. Again, it was destroyed by high winds (but those ospreys seem to be trying to rebuild).<\/p>\n

It seems likely that many nests along the West Arm were destroyed by high winds at the same time. A promising start had been blown away. Can anyone add any further evidence?<\/p>\n

Ospreys at Sunshine Bay are trying to rebuild after high winds destroyed the first nest, but it seems that most other ospreys have just given up (picture taken June 13, 2011). \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that 2011 is an annus horribilis for ospreys along the West Arm of Kootenay Lake. Normally there might be 20 or 30 nesting pairs on the stretch of water between Balfour and Nelson (there is variation: in 2009 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}