Dang it. If there is one thing I really hate, it is having a perfectly good rant ruined by facts. That is so profoundly annoying.
I pass through Bath just about every day. For years and years I have loved watching the osprey that nest atop the power pole. Then, earlier this spring – the nest was gone! Like many of you, I was outraged.
Out. Raged. A few days later, I saw the “nest platform” go up.
I scoffed. So did the birds. I watched them perch, give it a test ride and then abandon it.
And I applauded them. Midcoast resident Heather D. Martin wants to know what’s on your mind; email her at heather@heatherdmartin.
com. Then came the ultimate flex. The osprey built a new nest right where the old one had been, wedged between the upright prongy-things (I believe that is the correct technical term) meant to discourage nesting.
I cheered. Then, to my horror and renewed outrage – that nest was removed, too! Well. Enough was enough.
I called the warden’s office. Answering my call was Keel Kemper, a very kind, very funny and very patient wildlife biologist who has clearly been fielding questions from people like me – a lot of questions from a lot of people like me. This is where those pesky facts come into play.
Grrr. Annoying. First, let’s just get this out of the way: CMP was operating within their legal rights.
So long as there is no actual egg within the nest, the power company has that authority to remove the nest. This was the first annoying thing I learned. Seco.