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Osprey rescue in St. Marys ends in tragedy By Herman Veenendaal For several weeks, myself and two other birdwatchers from St. Marys, Pamela Mulholland and Peter Osborne, had been concerned about the young osprey on its nest at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Normally, the young would have left the nest by now, but the chick remained and, while still being fed by its parents, was obviously in some distress. It appeared in need of rescue. A similar rescue took place in 2015 when one of the young had become tangled in binder twine. It could fly to a height of about two meters before reaching the end of the twine trapping it. Brian Salt of Salthaven Wildlife Rescue attended and released the bird from its trap and the bird immediately flew free.
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A recent attempt to rescue an osprey chick from a nest 70 feet up at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ended in tragedy after the bird, which had been tangled in plastic baler twine, had to be put down because the plastic twine had severed one of the bird’s legs, making it impossible for it to hunt on its own. Photo courtesy of Herman Veenendaal
On Aug. 4, I made a post asking for help on the St. Marys Life Facebook page, which resulted in many expressions of concern and suggestions of who to contact for a truck big enough to reach 70 feet, the height of the nest. Kevin Adams of Tri-County Brick in Stratford was one of those who responded and kindly volunteered the use of his boom truck. I then contacted Salt of Salthaven Wildlife Rescue to arrange the rescue operation.
St. Marys’ success as host of Ontario Aug. 6, Salthaven Wildlife Rescue along with Joe Summer Games Triathlon opens doors On Hanna of Tri-county Brick in Stratford attended the osprey nest at the hall of fame to rescue the trapped for similar sporting events osprey chick, which had been unable to leave the By Galen Simmons When it comes to hosting large sporting events, St. Marys put itself on the map recently when it successfully hosted the Ontario Summer Games triathlon Aug. 2 and 3. As the summer games were hosted in London this year, organizers approached the town late last year seeking a suitable location for the swim-
ming portion of the triathlon. The St. Marys swimming quarry, as it turned out, fit the bill and 60 young athletes, their families and fans converged on the Stonetown for the two-day event that included swimming in the quarry, biking on town roads and running on the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum grounds.
nest. It had become trapped in plastic binder twine which the parent birds brought to the nest earlier in the nesting season. A brief break in the rain allowed the operation to go ahead at 9 a.m.
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Sadly, the young bird will not survive. One of its legs had been severed by the twine and, while this had healed over, a one-legged osprey cannot hunt. It's also nearly impossible to feed them as a captive bird so the difficult decision was made to humanely euthanize the bird.
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