Members of the Milford Marine Institute observed a male osprey on the nesting platform at the Gulf Pond State Wildlife Refuge opposite Gulf Beach on March 20. Males always return before females to claim territory and often return to the same nesting site. Females will return a few days later. The Milford Marine Institute chose the Osprey as their logo in 1983 because the osprey best represents the link between the avian and marine world. Ospreys are fish-eating hawks and are commonly referred to as fish hawks. Dozens of ospreys have been raised on the Gulf Pond State Wildlife refuge since the mid 1980s when the Milford Marine Institute in collaboration with the then state Department of Environmental Protection erected nesting platforms and perches. Ospreys, once endangered, are now thriving across the state. Photo by Tim Chaucer.
As the swallows return to Capistrano, the ospreys return the third week of March each year to the nesting platforms along the Indian River in Milford. Ospreys were seen March 21 and photographed by Tim Chaucer, director of the marine biology, bird ID and archaeology camps of the Milford Marine…
As the swallows return to Capistrano each spring so do the ospreys return to the platform and perch in Milford. Members of the Milford Marine Institute spotted a solitary osprey on Monday, March 27 on the perch at the platform on along the Indian River, commonly referred to as Gulf…
The Milford Land Conservation Trust ushered in its 50th anniversary recently with the installation of an osprey nesting platform on Gulf Pond that it hopes will attract an osprey family beginning this month. The local nonprofit group was founded in 1971. With an environmental funding grant from the Milford Environmental…
