[EBB Sightings] New personal high count from train: 10 Osprey

There was probably a female nearby.  Male osprey will
circle and loop and show off their fish catch when
they're trying to impress females by demonstrating
their ability to feed her and any potential offspring
they might have.  Kind of like human males wearing
very expensive watches and driving expensive sports
cars to demonstrate reproductive fitness, as measured
by access to economic resources.  I saw an osprey
doing that in Inverness in the spring, just circling
and looping and calling loudly to a nearby female with
his fish.  

--- Hilary Powers  wrote:

> Kirk Swenson wrote:
> 
> > On my commute to work on Amtrak this morning from
> 8:30-9:00, I had a  
> > new personal high count of 10 Osprey between
> Martinez and Richmond.  
> > There were four perched (with fish) between the
> Carquinez and Benicia  
> > Bridges and four flying in the same vicinity. An
> additional one  soaring 
> > and one perched (eating fish) were in the vicinity
> of Pinole  Regional 
> > Park as we approached Richmond.
> 
> That's great! Reminds me of my best Osprey day, out
> in West Marin: only 
> three birds, but one of them was taking a fish for a
> ride - up and down 
> and round and round through huge loops and circles,
> apparently for the 
> sheer joyous jollies of it all.... Anyone seen that?
> Any idea why they 
> do it?
> 
> 
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