[Jeff_H]

Saturday was my first sail since early February, and as I slipped out of the creek I saw my first Osprey of the season. I realized that St. Patrick’s Day was this week and that the Ospreys always arrive on St. Patrick’s Day. I have always marveled at the Osprey’s precise timing. I have gone out the day before St. Patrick’s Day and not seen a single Osprey, and gone out the next day on St. Patrick’s day and there they were taking up home on the various channel markers.

As I contemplated this phenomena, the Osprey flew along side my boat, and on a whim I hailed the osprey and asked, “Tell me Mr. Osprey why is it that you always arrive for St. Patrick;’s day?”

Much to my amazement, the osprey responded in a thick brogue.
“Aye Laddie I see your confusion,
It comes from calling me Osprey,
Instead of by my propers.... O’sprey,
For an Osprey might miss a Saint Paddie’s
But never a Mr. O’sprey”

 

[CalebD]

Aye Mr. Halperin. And quite amazin' birds they be. While I don't doubt your tale I had to check the range of such far reachin' feathered friends. T'would seem that they do not spend much time near ol' Erin though.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Pandion_haliaetus_global_range.svg

Their worldwide range though is rather amazin'. That is, do you believe in this wikimedia nonesense.

 

[Donna_F]

Sigh.

 

[tdw]

Caleb ... as I constantly tell the lovely Ms Wombet .... never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.

 

[VallelyJ]

Yep, the O'Spreigh. A fine bird 'tis.
They don't show up here in upstate NY till early spring--sometime in July.

 

[tdw]

Osprey can you see ?

 

[Capt Len]

Good to see no tern unstoned.

 

[VallelyJ]

Ok that does it. I'm outa here. Osprey la vista.

 

[tdw]

You'll egret it ....

 

[Jeff_H]

You folks are robin a decent thread and crow-ating a public nuance. Tern a new leaf and sparrow-owl of us these fine feathered abuses.

 

[Capt Len]

Wattle it take to fowl your gullibility? It grebes me to duck this kind of bulltits.Wren will it end?

 

[Donna_F]

Wattle it take to fowl your gullibility? It grebes me to duck this kind of bulltits.Wren will it end?

That was painful to read.

 

[Capt Len]

Make you shriek?

 

[Faster]

You folks are robin a decent thread and crow-ating a public nuance. Tern a new leaf and sparrow-owl of us these fine feathered abuses.

You started it....

 

[bblument]

Would somebody please close this turkey of a thread before some other nuthatch commits another cardinal sin and continues this raven lunacy?

 

[Faster]

Would somebody please close this turkey of a thread before some other nuthatch commits another cardinal sin and continues this raven lunacy?

Not sure whether I'm condor pro on that sentiment....

 

[Capt Len]

Don't peck about the edge water, say eggactly what you think.

 

[tdw]

I wonder if Jeff was thinking this is Twitter ?

 

[bblument]

I wonder if Jeff was thinking this is Twitter ?

I dunno, but this whole thing is so auk-ward it needs to go the way of the dodo...

 

[Donna_F]

All this warbling has led me to believe that you've all lost your collective minds.