OSPREY RESCUE & CONSERVATION

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

Please post Osprey rescue and conservation reports here, unless the Osprey involved has a nest topic on the forum.

JAZZEL :wink:

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

PLOUGHBOY, a member of our forum posted this video in 2010. Not to be forgotten in 2011.

"Born to Travel"

JAZZEL

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:06 am

Found this story last night on Osprey google alert thought it was great I know you like it
Osprey gets a new perch in Safety Harbor

By Lorri Helfand, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, January 29, 2011
Edited : I see you saw it also jazzel :sfwave:

Video

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:08 am

Well I found Barbs video about that Osprey that died from the lightening rod/spike

Safety Harbor now safer harbor for ospreys

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:08 am

New Jersey Osprey Project

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

Thanks for posting the NJOP update!! :loveshow:

Ben Wurst is a true champion of Ospreys. He will educate people about where to place platforms, he's in a very hard area...trust me.

A little more on Ben Wurst's work.

JAZZEL

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

Originally Posted by KITTENFACE: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:43 am

Oh my that was very interesting watching how they build those platforms.
I don't know why I always thought they were alot higher up in the air so they are just about 12 or so feet in the air according to what he was saying SO NEAT
Thanks for pointing the video out to me
They are all so dedicated to this osprey project
HATS OFF TO ALL OF THEM (SO SPECIAL)

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Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

kittenface wrote:

Well I found Barbs video about that Osprey that died from the lightening rod/spike

Safety Harbor now safer harbor for ospreys

Follow up on this from Barb.
• The lightning rod caps were installed in Safety Harbor. I still don't
• really like to see the rods inside the nesting platforms but this is an
• immediate solution. A nearby lake is in dire need of pine plantings. I'll
• accomplish that too, per this year's grant. Proper habitat adjustments
• might draw some of the ospreys time away from the ball field altogether.
• The city plans an upcoming event with a helicopter to land in the ball
• field. I will discourage landing the helicopter near the nests which will
• be incubating by then. There are no established buffer zones for ospreys.
• Fireworks planned to be set off at a ball field south of Safety Harbor, in
• Seminole, where there are also nesting ospreys, concern another local
• birdwatcher. On Friday, the 4th of Feb, every pair of ospreys I saw were
• mating and I received reports of mating activity from all areas of the
• county. We should see lots of incubation by Valentine's Day.
•
•

JAZZEL

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:25 am

Osprey released back into the wild 15 months later :girlluv:

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

Kitten

We now have a great osprey fact..talons..on the forum. Love the Rescue & Conservation topic!!!!

I have, of course, added your report to my osprey facts folder. :girlluv:

JAZZEL

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

Barb Walker, on the Dunedin nest notes, posted these links to a rescued osprey.

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kittenface · **Posted:** Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:20 pm

This isn't so much a rescue but thought it was very interesting all the same
Last Signals.
Monday 7th March 2011.
The Strange tale of Number 11.
In late December our young Osprey Number 11 moved northwards along the coast of Mauritania. By January 2nd he was approximately 45 kilometres (28 miles) south of the capital Nouakchott when he turned inland to roost in a circular collection of rocks or trees. He then disappeared; all signals from the transmitter were lost. After ten days the signals from the satellite for number 11 ceased. The positions of the last signals were approximately one hundred yards west of the N2 road between Nouakchott and St Louis.
Towards the end of January the satellite started to record signals again and told us the transmitter was moving around an area 19.20 kilometres (11.93 miles) to the north, but again near the N2 road. The movement was very restricted. We continued to receive signals between the 23rd January and the 3oth January but they were all static. The signal died away again but revived between 9th and 10th of February but then disappeared again. Over the last few days we have once again received very faint signals from the same site.
So what is going on? The answer is we don’t know. It is very unlikely that the transmitter is still attached to a living Osprey.
For the last month we have been trying through various organisations to persuade someone to go out into the Mauritanian Desert to take a look for us – unfortunately we have been unsuccessful with this.
As a very last resort we put out this appeal, if you have any kind of contact with anyone in the area of Nouakchott in Mauritania who could take a look at the side of the N2 road between Nouakchott and St Louis we would like to hear from you.
The location of the signal is 17.84217 N, -15.98267 E

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:18 pm

Seattle City Light testing osprey protection device

by KING 5 News
KING5.com
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:02 PM

Updated today at 2:02 PM

SEATTLE - Seattle City Light is testing a new device built by a local osprey expert to see whether it will protect the growing population of osprey along the Lower Duwamish River by keeping them away from high voltage power lines.

Last August, an osprey started building a nest on a Harbor Island utility pole and it caught fire.

"The fear is that if they came back and tried to nest, we could end up killing a bird," City Light Wildlife Biologist Ron Tressler said. "We're trying to keep osprey happy and off our structures, so we can coexist."

The utility turned to osprey expert Jim Kaiser, a consulting wildlife biologist who owns Osprey Solutions. Kaiser and Ed Schulz, a retired electrical engineer from Everett, built a nest deterrent system by modifying and updating a design originally conceived for transmission towers in the 1980s, and offered it to City Light for testing.

The osprey prefers to nest at the tallest available structures, which used to be dead trees or live trees with broken tops, but there aren't many of those in the Seattle area, Kaiser said.

“These birds have learned to select tall man-made structures like cell phone towers and utility poles,” he said.

Kaiser built a device that blocks the ospreys' access to power lines and makes it harder for the birds to place sticks and other nest materials on the pole. Using corrugated pipe that is wider than the 4-inch spread of on osprey's talons also makes it hard for the birds to grasp it and perch, Kaiser said.

Osprey have defeated many other designs, including plastic spikes, triangles and smaller diameter pipe coverings.

"We have yet to achieve state-of-the-art in osprey deterrence," Kaiser said. "We'll see how it goes."

Seattle City Light is committed to operating in an environmentally sensitive manner. A video shows some of City Light's earlier work to help osprey.

Protecting th esprey from power lines also reduces the risk of damage to the utility's equipment and an outage.

jim · **Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:59 pm

This is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Rescue and Conversation
but one of three Osprey nests I have been watching for a few years has
been completely removed by the the power company as they are installing
new power poles. I had seen both adults there this season. This is right on
Little Creek Reservior where our tracked eagles Azalea and Camellia have visited.
Osprey's are resourceful, I am sure they will build another one.

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:00 pm

I have been following a story about a nest in the Tampa Bay area about Osprey nesting on a crane & company man wanting to do the right thing to move it due to losing money then found out they couldn't then they decided to take the fine and had the audobon help move what they thought were chicks to a new nest but it wasn't it was eggs SO they had to take the eggs out and away to try and hatch them, I understand the mans side he wanted to do right but was losing something like $8,000 a day and did ask for help but no one could do anything some were saying just dump it and take a fine, but he wouldn't he wanted to do the best so he erected another nest from what I gathered and took the fine and tried all he could to keep the eggs and parents together but it wasn't going to happen that way, it is sad but at least the eggs have a chance now and didn't just get thrown in the water.
here is a news report of some of it

kittenface · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:07 pm

Here is a update on the eggs that were removed and I guess it was just in time :egg14:

One of osprey eggs taken from atop crane ready to hatch

kittenface · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:49 pm

Well I see Barb is on the ball again getting information out there about those eggs that are hatching :egg5:

I got a couple emails with pictures and links to articles more or less some of the same ones i have been posting but its great having them all in one spot

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

kittenface wrote:

Well I see Barb is on the ball again getting information out there about those eggs that are hatching :egg5:
I got a couple emails with pictures and links to articles more or less some of the same ones i have been posting but its great having them all in one spot

Well as we know, no survivors from this one :evil:

This is how it should be....the law!!!

Ed, from Lake Barkley, just sent me this :sunsmile:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/seattleking ... p-25150706

JAZZEL

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 11:14 pm

I've been reading about this also I get all kinds of good stories with that google osprey alert but I don't want to overload here with all of them :sunrolleyes:

Jazzel26 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:09 pm **Posts:** 2586

kittenface wrote:

I've been reading about this also I get all kinds of good stories with that google osprey alert but I don't want to overload here with all of them :sunrolleyes:

Kitten...overload :smile:

JAZZEL

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