{"id":893,"date":"2016-08-28T07:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2018-10-13T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:26:16","slug":"operation-nest-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/operation-nest-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Nest Clean-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/163967094\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have always been amazed at what the Osprey bring to the nest, I&#8217;ve seen pieces of blue and orange tarp and even a scarf one year. This year I could see fishing line, hook and sinker dangling from the nest&#8230;making me wonder what was not visible inside the nest ?<\/p>\n<p>Following the chick rescue Aug. 9th. concerns were made to Jim Duncan at MB. Sustainable Development ( Conservation ) about my findings and hoped they could help out ? He told me that &#8221; He was working on it &#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>This was great news to hear and thought that during the fall or winter at some point the nest would be cleaned up for next year. Little did I know just how fast this would happen.<\/p>\n<p>Aug 19th. &#8221; Operation Nest Clean-up &#8221; was underway with the help from Manitoba Hydro ( Gimli ) Jim accessed the nest in a lift truck.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_513v7GWBo0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><em>video courtesy of Manitoba Hydro<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The collection of debris removed included fishing line, hook, sinker, baling twine, pieces of tarp, fishing gill net, articles of clothing, one sock and a rock. <\/p>\n<p>Since this was only one nest I&#8217;m sure others sites will have the same sort of debris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been amazed at what the Osprey bring to the nest, I&#8217;ve seen pieces of blue and orange tarp and even a scarf one year. This year I could see fishing line, hook and sinker dangling from the nest&#8230;making me wonder what was not visible inside the nest ? Following the chick rescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-of-prey","tag-osprey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}