Build it and they will come

Update: Over the weekend a pair of Osprey’s were seen starting to nest in the new platform.  Time to welcome our new temporary residents, may they produce healthy chicks.

What happens when a Nature Center, a Town, a County and a State work together? Wildlife and ecotourism benefit. On April 9th volunteers from the Town of Slaughter Beach, the Delaware Nature Society, and the DuPont Nature Center (a division of DNREC) joined together to place a new Osprey Nest in the Delaware Nature Society’s Marvel Tract Salt Marsh.
Dawn Cox, manager of the DuPont Nature Center, donated an unused Osprey platform to be used at the Delaware Nature Society’s site. Additional materials to complete the nest were supplied by the Town of Slaughter Beach through a grant funded by Sussex County.
This project was part of the Town’s Initiative, to become a Certified Wildlife Habitat Community through the National Wildlife Federation, with help from Delaware Nature Society.  Follow our progress on Facebook.