Date: 4/13/24 2:50 pm From: via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Thanks for Osprey platform comments
Hello tweeters,
I hadn't realized that Tweeters doesn't publish a contributer's email anymore, so no one who might have wanted to write to me directly about my Osprey platform query (why don't we have many in western WA as opposed to eastern WA) could do so. So thank you to Nancy Morrison, Meredith Spencer and Marilyn Shearling for your comments today. There were some yesterday too. It appears that county offices of Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife may be responsible for erecting Osprey nesting platforms. Apparently ours in King and Snohomish don't feel a need to do that. So many of our Ospreys are obliged to nest in cell phone towers!
Ronda Stark and Tom Benedict also had comments. Ronda said that some platforms constructed in our area are so poorly designed that Ospreys can't use them NOAA did a good job, however.
Since I wrote my original post, I have seen one good Osprey platform in western WA. It is on PUD land above Sultan at the hydroelectric plant that they operate there. The Ospreys are already on the nest and seem happy!
