Magnificent ospreys are coming back in the Great Lakes Basin:
Surrounded by budding willows, oaks and maples, the pair looked out of place among the gray latticework of steel and wire. But it's here near a good-sized pond the fish-eating raptors have chosen to live. And it's at sites like this, across southeastern Wisconsin, that ospreys are settling in.
"They're building nests in all sorts of odd locations," said Sumner Matteson, an avian ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. "At the top of a tall light pole in a ballpark, on a crane boom in a gravel pit . . . on top of a cell tower in Madison."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/may05/323105.asp
Posted by Dave at May 3, 2005 01:42 PM