OUR NATURAL WORLD OF OREGON'S COAST
Views and News of the Oregon Coast's Natural World A service from Wallace Kaufman EYES IN THE SKIES (NOTE: This is the first of a developing news service blog about the natural world of the Oregon coast, particularly Lincoln County. Instead of cute comic captions, that make animals the butt of human jokes, I will try to encapsulate useful and important facts that allow us to understand our fellow animals how differently they experience the world and time. As the blog develops, I hope to have photos and notes by some of our excellent wildlife and landscape photographers and naturalists.) Ospreys hunt over ocean waves, estuaries, rivers, and lakes around the world. Look carefully along any waterway on the Oregon coast and you will see an osprey nest of sticks and lichens on top of a power pole, in the branches of a dead tree, on top of a pole of floodlights, or on a platform constructed by a power company to lure them away from live wires and transformers. The osprey eye sees...