Ian, Tweets:

Are there any nests in the greater Seattle area that are *not* on man made
objects might be a good question.

For starters, there's a nest .7 mile south of the West Seattle bridge, right
at the Grayline Terminal and just north of Herring House Park - on a light
standard. There's a nest on a cell phone tower just south of 405 where
Interurban curves to the south & becomes the West Valley Highway. There was
a nest on a power tower of some sort south of Boeing, way down the Duwamish
(could find it, but don't know the names of the streets). I think the nest
at the south end of Lake Washington in Renton is on an artificial platform.
What about the Meydenbauer Bay nest that was moved because it blocked
someone's view (erghhh!)?

Ed Schulz, aren't most of the Everett nests on manmade structures?

It would be fun to compile a list. Ian, do you want to do this? I will, if
you don't want to.

Ruth Taylor
rutht at seanet.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Paulsen <ipaulsen at krl.org>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Osprey nesting on manmade objects


>HI:
> An Oregon wildlife biologist from the USGS wants to study osprey nesting
>on MAN-MADE objects (vs. trees and other natural locations)in the Puget
>Sound region. Does anyone know of any such locations?
>Sincerely
>
>Ian Paulsen
>Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
>ipaulsen at krl.org
>A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
>"Rallidae all the way"
>
>