The osprey, a water-loving, eagle-like hawk, is a spectacular bird with a wingspread of 5 to 6 feet. Let's compare this to the wingspread of other large birds we have in Central New York: red ...

But my interest today is not the hawk watchers, but the hawks - and one in particular: the osprey. In a typical year, a couple hundred ospreys may be counted by the Putney Mountain hawk watchers, so ...

Sometimes called the Fish Hawk, River Hawk or Sea Hawk. All these other names are not correct and actually misleading since the osprey is not a hawk at all. And it is not a type of eagle either.

The event will include the Hays Bald Eagle nest, a red tail hawk nest, a kestrel nest and two osprey nests, all within a nine- to 10-mile section of the trail, according to Bires.

Osprey were a different story, though, at Hawk Mountain. “Osprey at Hawk Mountain did not show a big dip,” Goodrich said, “but our birds come from inland areas of New England and Canada that ...