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A pair of ospreys are making their home on a new nesting platform landowner Dave Craig erected on his Rideau River property after accidentally toppling the old pole last summer.
The birds started building their nest last week on the 16-metre tall wooden pole Craig installed in August.
“I hope they don’t get in trouble for building without a permit,” Craig joked Thursday.
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Craig put up the old osprey platform on his land beside the W.A. Taylor Conservation Area on River Road in 1985 at a time when osprey populations were still recovering from the devastating effects of the pesticide DDT, which weakened egg shells and harmed the birds’ ability to reproduce. Ospreys have since rebounded and are now common throughout Eastern Ontario.
The original pole had rotted badly, however, and came down when Craig struck it with his tractor while mowing grass last July. One of the ospreys’ two chicks was killed in the collapse, provoking online outrage from those who thought the nest had been toppled deliberately.
The new platform sits on an old lighting pole Craig obtained from the Metcalfe fairgrounds.
The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority tweeted out the ‘great news’ Thursday, and thanked Craig for erecting the new platform. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry investigated last summer’s chick death and confirmed it was accident.
Great news! Osprey have return to nesting platform along #Rideau River. Thanks to our local landowner for replacing the platform. pic.twitter.com/9PzSLFTjvw
— RVCA (@RideauValleyCA) April 13, 2017
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The birds started building their nest last week on the 16-metre tall wooden pole Craig installed in August.
“I hope they don’t get in trouble for building without a permit,” Craig joked Thursday.
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Craig put up the old osprey platform on his land beside the W.A. Taylor Conservation Area on River Road in 1985 at a time when osprey populations were still recovering from the devastating effects of the pesticide DDT, which weakened egg shells and harmed the birds’ ability to reproduce. Ospreys have since rebounded and are now common throughout Eastern Ontario.
The original pole had rotted badly, however, and came down when Craig struck it with his tractor while mowing grass last July. One of the ospreys’ two chicks was killed in the collapse, provoking online outrage from those who thought the nest had been toppled deliberately.
The new platform sits on an old lighting pole Craig obtained from the Metcalfe fairgrounds.
The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority tweeted out the ‘great news’ Thursday, and thanked Craig for erecting the new platform. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry investigated last summer’s chick death and confirmed it was accident.
Great news! Osprey have return to nesting platform along #Rideau River. Thanks to our local landowner for replacing the platform. pic.twitter.com/9PzSLFTjvw
— RVCA (@RideauValleyCA) April 13, 2017
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