Yes, we've been enjoying watching those ospreys at the tower for a week or
so! Last week, in fact, there were three of them there. It appeared that
they had started to nest, so it was a bummer to see that the workers turned
the plank on edge and dumped the nest materials.

Phil Mitchell
Seattle

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Tom Talbott <tom.talbott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Long time lurker, but wanted to pass this along:
>
> A pair of osprey have been scoping out the Fremont area for the past two
> weeks. They've spent a lot of time on the newly refurbished tower next to
> Sound Mind & Body that will carry power between Fremont and Queen Anne.
> Well, this morning they decided to start building a nest on top of the
> tower on a plank that was left up there by the workers last Fall.
>
> Well, it turns out that today was when work was scheduled to begin
> finishing the work on the towers and workers showed up and cleaned up the
> "mess". The osprey weren't too happy and spent much of the day on the
> opposite tower or circling overhead complaining.
>
> They are clearly fond of that particular tower, because this evening they
> were both back on it, even though the original plank has been removed.
> Admittedly, it isn't the best place for them considering everything they
> drop lands right on the Burke-Gilman trail. But, since it is likely that
> this is a newish pair that would like to setup in the area, it sure would be
> cool if they had a place to do it.
>
> The tower can be found in the middle of the map here:
> http://goo.gl/maps/VCBF
>
> Take care,
> - Tom
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tweeters mailing list
> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>
>


--
Bikewise: http://www.bikewise.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20110524/f99297ac/attachment.htm