This is just a reminder to join us for tomorrow's Cayuga Bird Club
webinar, where Paul Paradine and Kraig Senter will describe their work
with NYSEG installing Osprey nest platforms.
Register free for the Zoom meeting at: https://tinyurl.com/cbc2022-05
More details below.
This will be our last webinar for the season.
Suan
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The Cayuga Bird Club’s next monthly meeting will be Monday, May 9,
2022 at 7:30pm.
Our speakers, Paul Paradine and Kraig Senter, will be presenting:
“Ospreys and Overheads: Working Together to Build and Rebuild”
Register free for Zoom meeting at: https://tinyurl.com/cbc2022-05
Prior to the 1990's, there were very few Osprey nests left in the
Finger Lakes Region. Environmental pollutants and habitat loss had
significantly impacted their historic populations. Today, there are
over 140 nests in the Finger Lakes Area with many more throughout the
State of New York. The vast majority of these nests are on built
structures such as utility or light poles, cellular and steel towers.
Paul Paradine and Kraig Senter, along with the invaluable support of
their colleagues at Avangrid, have been working on the restoration of
Ospreys in the Finger Lakes Region to their historic population
estimates for well over a decade. Balancing the need for safe nesting
locations for Osprey with the need for safe and reliable power and
critical infrastructure is challenging yet extremely rewarding - the
result has been an extremely successful reestablishment of a healthy
Osprey population in the Finger Lakes and across New York where they
now coexist harmoniously with the needs of the public for reliable
electric power transmission.
In this presentation, they describe the design of nest platforms as
well as efforts to make them safe for the Ospreys and the workers who
install and maintain the platforms. With the success of nest platforms
to increase osprey populations and with the support of NYSEG, they are
working to expand the geographic range of this project to other
regions in New York state and to develop standardized installation,
maintenance and nest data collection activities.
They also continue to look for opportunities to partner with other
groups and organizations to look for collaborations that will increase
the positive synchronization between utility providers and wildlife
conservation and management - an endeavor that benefits both.
About Our Speakers:
Paul Paradine is the Senior Vegetation Manager for New York State
Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RGE).
Originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, he has worked with Wildlife and
Forest Conservation Projects across the United States and Canada. He
began his career with the United States Park Service and the United
States Forest Service, working as a Backcountry Biologist and
Technician and eventually becoming passionately involved with
Endangered Spotted Owl populations in Northern California. He
continues to promote Raptor Conservation through successful Osprey
Initiatives in NY, Maine and Connecticut.
Kraig Senter is a Division Forester and Arborist at New York State
Electric & Gas (NYSEG). He began his career with New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation working with forest health
issues under an Early Detection Rapid Response program that located
exotic and invasive plants and insects. Later, he began marking
commercial timber sales on state land and worked closely with wildlife
biologists to create new, early successional habitat. Today, he enjoys
volunteering on Out-of-State wildfire assignments and helping to
advance an established osprey nest program at NYSEG
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