A pair of ospreys have taken to a new place to nest in Longmont. Early morning May 2, crews relocated the birds’ nest from atop a 40-foot outdoor warning siren along the southern edge of Twin Peaks Golf Course to a flat platform on a 30-foot wooden pole about 100 yards to the west.
City staff worked with Longmont Power & Communications and the Colorado Division of Wildlife for a week to determine a plan to move the nest, said Longmont emergency manager Dan Eamon. The entire operation took about 2 1/2 hours.
Phil Goode, who spotted the nest April 26, e-mailed the city because he was concerned the active birds would spook when the Outdoor Emergency Warning System was tested at 10 a.m. May 2 — the first test of the season.
Eamon said city staff unplugged the siren in case the move overlapped with the scheduled test, but they managed to move the nest quickly enough to still test that siren. Eamon said the birds returned to their nest at its new location about a half-hour later.
“Everything just worked out,” he said. Longmont Times-Call
