I did a quick tour of some local osprey nests this morning and found three active nests; two along the new Highway 1 from Oak Bay to St. Stephen where one pole-top home had a pair and another on a dead tree had only one present. A longtime site on a power pole at Bartlett's Mill had a pair actively building a new nest.How many active nests occur in your area? Let us know and share this information.
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Subject: Osprey pair
Saw a pair Osprey yesterday (24 April 2009) on a nest platform between kilometer 322-323 markers on the TCH near Oromocto. First this year for me.
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JC
Sackville, New Brunswick
Canada
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Re: other raptors... was returning from Bangor about 5 p.m. today (Sunday, April 26) and saw a Bald Eagle on the nesting box closest to Rt. 1 at the Moosehorn Refuge, Calais, Me. Looked like new material has been added to the box.
Nesting ospreys knock power out for almost 10,000 in Fredericton area
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CBC News
A pair of nesting ospreys are responsible for a significant power outage in the Fredericton area on Friday morning.
Almost 10,000 customers lost power around 6 a.m. on Friday when the birds dropped a large stick on a power transmission line, NB Power spokeswoman Heather MacLean said. At noon, there were still more than 900 people without electricity.
Repairing the line is complicated though because ospreys are a species at risk. MacLean said: "We can't touch [the nest]. We are not going to touch them.
"So we leave them where they are because we don't want to risk them. But we do work very conscientiously during the non-nesting time to make sure we move the nests."
The blackout also knocked out CBC Radio's signal to listeners in the Fredericton area.
NB Power crews are still at the scene, located in a flooded area of the St. John River near Oromocto.
When the crews arrived they found a second stick on the transmission lines.
The utility has roughly 27,000 kilometres of transmission lines across the province.