Greetings & Salutations for Osprey

 

While snow has given way to rain and I never did spot a lamb this March (or a lion…), Islanders eagerly await Edwin the Osprey’s return flight.  Thanks to our Henry Ferguson Museum, folks can cozily sit in front of their computer screens and catch and map his every GPS move north(or zig-zag!) towards here, home.

Admittedly, I prefer to be a sort of “welcoming committee” for these birds, get an “interview” off camera.

And we Islanders know that everyone has their own way to welcome the new season-the new and not so new faces…a certain rhythm develops for all of us; like- who will find whom and where. Everything becomes familiar again.

Oyster pond is a very familiar hang out for another particular Osprey here now, and I suppose a lot of mileage on the Recreational Path these years has us hanging out together. By now we can even stop, turn around, and welcome and greet each other with the same whistle!

 It’s all part of making and preserving local traditional knowledge for an Island.