Cell Tower Ospreys - Tuttle
E-mail from Dick Tuttle
Hello Everyone,
Saturday, April 28, 2007:
Before I monitored my bluebird nest boxes in Delaware State Park, I drove to the Delaware Wildlife Area to check out the cell phone tower at the intersection of Leonardsburg and Horseshoe Roads. At 0900, two ospreys were standing on the huge triangular grid at the top of the tower. I pulled onto the hunter's parking lot near the intersection and watched for any action. The ospreys were content to stay put.
As I left to drive west into the wildlife area, I noticed that a unique view occurs when you are under the tower from the road; you can see up through the steel mesh. Even though stick carrying was observed on April 25, today, not much material is on the NE corner of the tower's "pad" where the Ospreys have carried their materials. Gazing upward will be one good way to tell if these birds are serious about this site. So far, the small amount of sticks tells
me that the courtship is in its earliest stages, at best.
Since my favorite and most enlightening graduate course was "The physics of Waves," I have strong opinions about living organisms near structures that radiate. I will never own a cell phone and have only talked five times on one, and only when one was handed to me. I will also never own a microwave oven, since I don't trust their ability to catch and stop the microwaves. So, I really hope the fish hawks find a better place to start a family. DNA is a fragile chemical and the inverse square law has stacked the cards against these birds.
Raptor on in good health, Dick Tuttle
Hello Everyone,
Saturday, April 28, 2007:
Before I monitored my bluebird nest boxes in Delaware State Park, I drove to the Delaware Wildlife Area to check out the cell phone tower at the intersection of Leonardsburg and Horseshoe Roads. At 0900, two ospreys were standing on the huge triangular grid at the top of the tower. I pulled onto the hunter's parking lot near the intersection and watched for any action. The ospreys were content to stay put.
As I left to drive west into the wildlife area, I noticed that a unique view occurs when you are under the tower from the road; you can see up through the steel mesh. Even though stick carrying was observed on April 25, today, not much material is on the NE corner of the tower's "pad" where the Ospreys have carried their materials. Gazing upward will be one good way to tell if these birds are serious about this site. So far, the small amount of sticks tells
me that the courtship is in its earliest stages, at best.
Since my favorite and most enlightening graduate course was "The physics of Waves," I have strong opinions about living organisms near structures that radiate. I will never own a cell phone and have only talked five times on one, and only when one was handed to me. I will also never own a microwave oven, since I don't trust their ability to catch and stop the microwaves. So, I really hope the fish hawks find a better place to start a family. DNA is a fragile chemical and the inverse square law has stacked the cards against these birds.
Raptor on in good health, Dick Tuttle
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