A nice way to start the new year ....
Homeless osprey gets its own pole
Dr. Roly Armitage / Ottawa Citizen / 3 Jan 2014
Ten years ago an osprey, a bird of the fish-eating hawk family, attempted to build a nest on top of a hydro pole mixed in with the existing wires and Hydro had to remove it. I intervened and asked them if they could extend the pole to accommodate the bird. Instead, they put in a new pole with a crib on top and moved the nest. The bird has returned every year and produced one or two young, much to the joy of several photographers and bird fanciers and local people.
Now a new bird, probably one of the offspring, started a new nest on an adjoining hydro pole and I phoned hydro in Arnprior and asked if they could accommodate our new guest and they said they would do what they could. I just checked and lo and behold a new pole with the crib on top is in place and the nest transferred.
Thanks again to our hydro people for their respect of nature. This whole event is at the Dunrobin bridge across Constance Creek on the Thomas Dolan Parkway By the way, there is also a Canadian flag flying on top of a beaver hut directly underneath.
Dr. Roly Armitage
Dunrobin, Ont.
source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Homeless+osprey+gets+pole/9348054/story.html
