Doug Beal’s spectacular Osprey photo in the Sept. 8 edition of the Sisters Nugget Newspaper brought back some wonderfulโand at times frighteningโmemories. Back in the early ’70s I was placing federal wildlife bands on baby osprey as part of an effort to determine the winter destination of the birds when they left Crane Prairie Reservoir. […]
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Adventures with Osprey
On banding birds in the sometimes-treacherous waters of Crane Prairie

