Osprey like football too!
Michigan residents aren't the only ones enjoying football this fall. It turns out that osprey in northern Michigan like football, too – football lights, that is. Marion High School sits just outside of town, overlooking agricultural fields and Middle Branch River, which – with its many feeder streams – winds its way through the Osceola County countryside. A large mill pond near town holds a nice supply of fish. “The osprey will drop fish right on the football field,” laughed Beth Robb, the Marion High School principal. Marion High School had a historic problem with a pair of osprey nesting on its football stadium lights. Together, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Consumers Energy and Marion High School formed a plan to provide the osprey with a different location to call home. “Everyone was very excited about this project,” said DNR wildlife biologist Erin Victory, who worked with Consumers Energy and the high school to relocate the nesting site. “The sc...