Dave Kruger wrote: Michael Noyes wrote: Paddling out of the cove we followed the shoreline southward again. We were heading toward the osprey nest. Unfortunately the osprey did not return to their nest last year. If anyone knows why I haven’t heard about it. They weren’t in evidence this year either. Even the buoys that mark off the keep out area were gone. Not seeing any osprey or buoys we were able to paddle up close to the base of the tree the nest is in and get a better look. [snip] Questions: 1. How come no swimming in the lake? Is it a source for potable water? 2. What's with the "keep out" area around the osprey nest? We have literally dozens of these nests around here, and if you inadvertently paddle under them, the adults get a little wigged out, but return to the nest within seconds of passing. 'Course, we don't have many paddlers around here, so perhaps if we had lots of paddlers, we'd be concerned about how close people get to the nests. Normally the nests are at least 30-40 feet above the water, and sometimes 80-100 feet off. 3. (This may be for Jackie.) What's with the "weren’t" stuff above? Is that gibberish in the middle of "weren't" some sort of substitute for an apostrophe in HTML or something? 1) Lake Massabesic is the water supply for the city of Manchester, NH. They allow power boats (speed limit 35 MPH) but not jet ski's because of the no swimming. Because of the size of the lake and the speed limit there aren't a great number of pleasure boaters, most of the boats are fishing boats. 2) In New England osprey are still considered endangered and therefore protected. I like the fact that people actually obey the signs around here, it renews my belief in the basic decency of people. 3) I did a cut and paste from a Microsoft Word file. It looked fine when I sent it, but I did notice that spell check didn't recognize the apostrophes. That should have raised a red flag for me, sorry about that. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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