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21 Sept: Jaws definitely hitched a ride on the strong northerly winds. We knew there was something fishy (appropriately enough for an Osprey) with the timing of our satellite locations. If the dates and times on this last set of data were to be believed, Jaws flew 655 miles (1055km) in a bit over 6 hours! In fact, the last four locations all had the same time. Now I know there were some strong tail winds, but that's ridiculous. We do know that his locations are correct--based on the last location here, the BBC crew tracked him down around midnight on the 20th at his roost site. (He was gone when they got there in the morning, of course.)       As it turns out, the first location on the Florida coast was really on the 20th at about 4PM. The first location over the Atlantic, SE of Baldhead Island, was about 25 hours earlier. We don't know where he hit the Florida shore, because there's a big gap in our data. The whole trip on this map is about 650 miles, and the time between fixes is 35 hours. This would give him a ground speed of 18 mph, which is a bit slow, especially with a tail wind. So it's a good bet he hit the coast somewhere up the Florida coast early on the 20th, worked his way south, and spent the night of the 20th between Lake Okeechobee and Stuart, FL.

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