Osprey Solutions LLC provides complete nest management services and products to help industry and wildlife coexist. It is a common practice for power companies to relocate problem nests to dedicated pole with nesting platform along their right-of-way. 

 

Unlike utilities which have wooden poles, equipment, and experienced crews on hand to set a pole, cell tower companies don’t have those resources and don’t own parcels of land near their towers which can limit their ability to provide a safe, alternate nest site for displaced Ospreys.

 

Attracting Osprey to a distant nest platform site depends on several critical habitat characteristics of the proposed site and the effectiveness of measure used to discourage re-nesting at the original structure.  Provisioning of nesting platforms for Ospreys is highly successful when mitigating problem nest sites near pole poles, but is not recommended as a proactive measure to attract Osprey when the regional nesting pollution is not robust.

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The approximate costs for the public to hire a company to set a nesting pole-platform in the Pacific Northwest platform is about $13,250.

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• hire a raptor biologist to conduct a site visit to select a suitable pole site and prepare a permit application with engineer-approved loading calculations for the nest platform ($2,500)

• purchase and deliver a 60-65 foot utility pole ($7,000)

• obtain a county clear and grade permit ($250)

• construct a nesting platform ($500)

• hire a company to auger a hole and set the new pole-platform about 8-ft deep ($3,000)