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Osprey - Maryland / Chesapeake Bay
allikat:
I have been watching this cam, and it's so amazing how committed raptors are to their eggs/young.
I hope that they can foster an osprey youngster here, but, time, and chick availability will determine that.
GCG:
Chesapeake Conservancy is still talking about the possibility of fostering. I would love to watch. Hope this happens.
GCG:
On CC site, this was posted as a blog.
https://ospreycamerablog.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/big-news/
GCG:
:o I just went on the Chesapeake Conservancy FB site and strangely, this was posted. Coincidence, TPC?
The Chesapeake Conservancy has been in touch with several government agencies and raptor biologists about the possibility of Tom & Audrey fostering chick(s). Each year, a growing number of osprey construct nests on navigational markers, boat docks, bridges, airport communication beacons and numerous types of other elevated structures near water, including cell towers. In some cases, according to Craig Koppie, USFWS Raptor Biologist at the Chesapeake Bay Field Office in Annapolis, Maryland, these nest locations may pose a safety risk to the pair or their young or may interfere with 911 emergency communications. If there is a problematic or nuisance nest that is deemed a hazard and meets the requirements for nest removal, efforts are made to relocate either eggs or young to foster nests if opportunities become available. The word is out in that community that Tom & Audrey could be great foster parents.
We are standing by to facilitate should this possibility come to fruition. Stay tuned!
GCG:
Thank you so much for your insightful response, TPC. I think this is "Tom's" first year with Audrey When he showed up this season, they again used the name Tom. The nest in Montana was a returning pair. Sadly, their eggs did not survive a torrential hail storm.
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