Thanks Missy….

 There may be people on this page who have never heard the name Missy Patty. Missy passed away in early December, at 88 years of age and I want to tell you a bit about her. I met Missy when we were both hack site attendants on the Osprey reintroduction effort here in Minnesota. She was leading the effort over on the east side of the metro, running the hack site in North Oaks and at Lake Vadnais, when I worked at the hack site at Medicine lake on the west side of the metro. When The Raptor Center had two permanently disabled Ospreys they wanted to train as education birds, Missy helped me with that….fist training and feeding these two totally different birds. We had many discussions about osprey behavior and how to achieve our goals with those ospreys. Missy also helped with banding young Ospreys for many years. In more recent years her attentions turned more towards her family and I didnt run into her when I was out monitoring osprey nests in her neck of the woods. I just wanted to use this space to acknowledge the many contributions she made to growing this population of ospreys, the knowledge she shared, and to say how sad I am to hear of her passing. She never read this page and her family probably doesnt either….but she was an important person in the Osprey world in Minnesota and I thank her for all she gave to help establish this population of Ospreys. May she rest in peace, and fly free….Thanks Missy.