Subject: Osprey nesting on manmade objects
Date: Feb 5 01:17:33 2003
From: Ed Schulz - eschulz at gte.net


Ruth, Ian, Tweets,

The answer to Ruth's question is definitely the short answer.
There are over two dozen Osprey nests in the Snohomish River
estuary and they are all on pilings except for a couple on
power poles. I am not aware of any Osprey nests in trees in
this area.

Ian, who is the USGS biologist that is interested in this? A
couple of the USGS biologists from the Corvallis office were
working with us on the Snohomish population and they are doing
extensive monitoring of populations in the Columbia and
Willamette River valleys. One of them, Chuck Henny, writes
about the most unusual Osprey nest locations was on the tail
fin of an unexploded 1000 pound bomb that was stuck in the
ground somewhere. Location, location, location!

Ed Schulz
Everett, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Taylor <rutht at seanet.com>
To: ipaulsen at krl.org <ipaulsen at krl.org>;
tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Osprey nesting on manmade objects


>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"
>>
>>
>
>