Sunday, June 16. The chick is 3 weeks old today and seems to grow moment to moment! They seem strong, curious, and unhesitant to urge mom to call for fish.
UPDATE: Dad accidentally carried off the netting! (This is why jumping to quick intervention is often not the ideal choice.) Bird netting has been in the nest for a day now, but so far, it hasn’t caused a problem. It’s stiff nature makes it less of an entanglement hazard than a more flexible netting like fish net, thankfully. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a hazard, just less of one. The chick has been on top of it multiple times without entangling, so that’s somewhat encouraging. With luck mom or dad will hook it and carry it off accidentally.
Boulder County has a non-intervention policy, but they have been notified as a heads up. We’ve had many potential dangerous items in the nest, and they are typically resolved by the ospreys. With this being a human-made item, should it cause a true entanglement issue, any action or non-action decision will be made by wildlife biologists.
Sunday, June 16. The chick is 3 weeks old today and seems to grow moment to moment! They seem strong, curious, and unhesitant to urge mom to call for fish.
UPDATE: Dad accidentally carried off the netting! (This is why jumping to quick intervention is often not the ideal choice.)
Bird netting has been in the nest for a day now, but so far, it hasn’t caused a problem. It’s stiff nature makes it less of an entanglement hazard than a more flexible netting like fish net, thankfully. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a hazard, just less of one. The chick has been on top of it multiple times without entangling, so that’s somewhat encouraging. With luck mom or dad will hook it and carry it off accidentally.
Boulder County has a non-intervention policy, but they have been notified as a heads up. We’ve had many potential dangerous items in the nest, and they are typically resolved by the ospreys. With this being a human-made item, should it cause a true entanglement issue, any action or non-action decision will be made by wildlife biologists.