Bill— I've been told that NYSEG has a small annual budget for environmental stewardship projects, including putting up osprey poles and platforms in this area. As a landowner, you can supposedly contact NYSEG and request that an osprey platform be put on a specific pole that is carrying live wires. If it's the right height pole and in good condition, in a good habitat for osprey, and if it's within their budget, NYSEG will consider it. Landowners can offer to pay for the platform, too. ($50-100 for just a platform, Putting up poles is the expensive part..). They can't put up platforms and non-electrified poles on private land, but can do it on public land, as they have in Lansing.
NYSEG has been very generous to the osprey in our area and I hope that they can continue to champion them. Paul Paradine is the regional NYSEG forester that has been instrumental in putting up osprey poles and platforms in our area of the lake. There's a NYSEG representative from Auburn who checks the nests on Routes 5&20. I am not sure who covers your Union Springs.. To talk to a NYSEG forester, call 1-800-572-1111. Do you have the perfect pole for an osprey platform? If so, let me know. The osprey population is increasing exponentially on Cayuga and many more osprey platforms will be needed in the near future. Your area is an important osprey hot spot!. Cheers! Candace On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:53 PM, william hecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Near Union Springs there are numerous osprey nest platforms built on > utility poles owned by NYSEG. how does one get the utility to put one up > on a specific pole.? > Why did the utility do it in the first place? > > Thanks > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail > Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
