If you’re an osprey looking to build a nest way up high, why not turn to “Faith” on the National Monument to the Forefathers and offer to weave her a crown of sticks?
While he can’t say for certain, Mass Audubon South Shore Sanctuaries Public Program Director John Galluzzo said it’s possible that a young pair of osprey has had a dry run at building its first nest high atop the monument on Allerton Street.
“It’s actually late in the season,” he said. “They may be a young pair playing housekeeping. At this point of the year, many are hatching. They may be going through the motions and seeing what to do next year.”
And it’s the hhe higher the better, Galluzzo said, for these coastal, fish-eating birds of prey who mate for life. Ospreys are brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and black wings.
“It’s typical of them,” he said. “They look for high points like that.”
It may be, Galluzzo said, that they were looking for territory of their own that was still close to the water. Audubon was alerted by e-mail to the presence of the nest.
