The 50 snow geese that flew by Terry Sullivan at the edge of Barcelona Point on Saturday have yet to find a regular hangout, not like the resident Canada geese, which know by now exactly in which pond they are going to spend each night, and which field they are going to visit each day. In fact, they appear to be near the beginning of it, not the end of it, as they should be. We are talking about the two ospreys that were seen by Ken Preuss, sitting in the nest fixed in the middle of the radio tower on Napeague, a nest which was not in use this year except at the very beginning of spring. Carol Preuss said they were there last Thursday, Nov. 19. It ranks among the latest dates that ospreys have been seen on eastern Long Island.
Ospreys often check out the nests of others when migrating.
The two may have designs on this one, a fixer-upper for 1999.