Cameras are trained on osprey nests in Lamoine and Mount Desert Island for the nesting season.
Versant builds platforms at more than 25 sites to keep the big nesting osprey off other infrastructure. The company works with its own environmental team, plus outside groups and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
The poles where the platforms are built are taller than regular utility poles to satisfy the birds’ instinct to nest on the highest point possible in the area, according to a Versant press release.
“We look forward to this time of the year when the ospreys return to Lamoine, MDI and all the other platforms in our service territory,” said Logan MacDonald, environmental supervisor at Versant Power. “The ospreys will lay their eggs in May, their chicks will hatch in June, and then they will migrate south in August and September.”
The cameras are solar-powered. Viewers can watch the ospreys build nests, care for their eggs and then their chicks before the young birds leave the nests.
Ospreys are federally protected birds under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
