I was out chatting with the farmer at one of our tower sites on a grain leg about a week ago and he told me that he had a pair of Ospreys build a nest on the top of the leg last year. He said he called a friend of his at the DNR and talked to him about it. The DNR guy said that if there are no eggs he was fine to tear it down but if there are eggs he needed to wait till they hatched and left before tearing it down. He had his nephew climb up and there was an egg but the egg had a hole in it so they took pictures and sent to the DNR. The DNR said that the birds often puncture their own eggs trying to move them around in the nest but since that was the only egg in the nest he was fine to take the whole nest down. He said he threw it all off and put an orange cone up there which has kept them off so far. As mentioned earlier, there are federal and state regulations so your mileage may vary depending on how your state (or possibly even who you talk to at the state).
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jan-GAMs Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 10:51 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Osprey on towers [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Pandion_haliaetus_-San_Francisco_Bay%2C_California%2C_USA-head-8_%282%29.jpg/220px-Pandion_haliaetus_-San_Francisco_Bay%2C_California%2C_USA-head-8_%282%29.jpg] I wouldn't want it coming after me even if I were on the ground let alone a ladder! Most birds will defend their nest. Get an outdoor speaker, mount it as close as you can get it to the nest and play a looped recording of a yapping chihuahua. Birds don't stay around where they can't listen and talk to each other, even anti-social ones like raptors I think wouldn't like it. These are a world-wide species, why is it protected? On 4/2/21 7:15 AM, Aeron Wireless wrote: I got a call from a local DNR volunteer informing me that Ospreys are building a nest on my monopole platform. He's saying that because it's a protected bird, I can't climb the tower until they leave in the fall. I have an email into the state DNR but no response yesterday and today being a gov holiday I don't expect a response until next week. Kinda freaking out here. I need to mount a few PTP links. I was planning on a climb today, but am holding off to hear definitively. This is the main tower for my WISP. Google kung-fu led me to a NATE presentation that says that climbing can be done with precautions. Talked to the tower owner (a small private owner, not one of the big three) who suggested adding a ring below the platform with the nest for the new PTPs. Can this be done with the birds on the tower? Has anyone dealt with Ospreys before? ________________________________ Total Control Panel Login<https://portal.reflexion.net/login?domain=litewire.net> To: ja...@litewire.net<https://portal.reflexion.net/address-properties?aID=242260993&domain=litewire.net> From: af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> You received this message because the domain afmug.com is on your allow list.
-- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
