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Seattle City Light Testing Osprey Protection Device

Osprey protection equipment installed on Harbor Island. Seattle City Light is testing a new device built by a local osprey expert to see whether it can protect the growing population…

Osprey Successfully Raising Chicks on Seattle City Light Nesting Platforms

…River. The platforms near the river were perfect for the osprey because fish make up 99 percent of the ospreys’ diets. Osprey nesting season is slowly winding down, but the…

Lonely Osprey Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Seattle can be a tough place for singles to meet their match, even when you’re an osprey. This single, male osprey has been trying to make a nest at…

City Light Uses Rubberized Covers on High Voltage Lines to Protect Duwamish Osprey

Seattle City Light workers remove an osprey nest near the Duwamish River that caused a short circuit. Osprey and electrical equipment don’t belong together, and City Light is working…

Expecting Osprey Parents Return

…teamed up to build an osprey tower with a nesting platform, in partnership with Osprey Solutions, LLC. The platform is on the southern edge of the Sound Transit Operation and…

Osprey Like New Tukwila Nesting Platform

Osprey at the new nest platform City Light installed in Tukwila. A new nesting platform Seattle City Light installed in Tukwila to encourage osprey to avoid high-voltage power lines won…

Commodore Park Osprey Family Growing

…platform for osprey at Commodore Park near the Hiram M. Chittenden locks. (Read the Power Lines post here.) A mating pair of osprey moved in quickly and successfully hatched two…

Seattle City Light Installs Osprey Platform in Tukwila

A City Light lineworker finishes the nesting platform installation. Seattle City Light installed a nesting platform for osprey in Tukwila this week to encourage a pair of the birds to…

Keeping the power on and the ospreys safe

In the ongoing saga between ospreys and City Light infrastructure near the Duwamish River, the birds have been getting the upper talon. That could change this spring. When the ospreys…

Ospreys Get a New Home at Commodore Park

…to set the pole with the osprey platform. In 2009, ospreys began nesting on a telegraph pole on the trestle bridge. The telegraph pole, approximately 90 years old and…