Subject: Osprey(s Eagles and Peregrines nesting) near downtown Seattle
Date: Apr 16 10:15:07 2004
From: Stewart Wechsler - ecostewart at quidnunc.net


Scott and all,

The Ospreys are around the south end of downtown Seattle throughout the
nesting season. One nest is south of a tall red and white pole about 1/4
mile south of the West Seattle bridge where they are often seen eating fish
on the bridge lamp-posts. I don't know if the Peregrine nest site under the
West Seattle Bridge is active this year (I know the Washington Mutual tower
nest is). There is also one Eagle nest in a cottonwood on the Hill roughly
due west of the Osprey nest behind the new Parks Department "Westbridge
Building" on Westlake Av. (There, the Parks department tree crew under the
management of Mark Mead has been systematically cutting down many of the
large Cottonwoods on Parks land, and I believe it has broken federal law
when it cut trees within 200 feet of that one , and maybe other, Eagle's
nests.) Another Eagle's nest is in a cottonwood about a mile north of that
at the edge of the greenbelt just south of Salty's restaurant.

So while we don't usually think of downtown areas as wildlife habitat, it
is.

Stewart Wechsler
West Seattle
mailto:ecostewart at quidnunc.net

-----Original Message-----
From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Scott Atkinson
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:20 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Osprey near downtown


Tweeters:

Forgot to mention in the last post that I also saw an OSPREY soaring over
the south end of downtown Seattle near the waterfront early this a.m., not
early for date, but seemingly a bit out of place.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com

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