Nesting pole could attract pair of ospreys

From the Janesville Gazette

On Sunday morning, a crew of volunteers from Alliant Energy installed a 68-foot osprey pole on Tallgrass Restorations' land near Newville.

Tallgrass, a company specializing in prairie and other ecological restorations, owns the 220 acres of land that used to be the Kidder game farm. The company transformed the farm fields back to their natural states, with prairies, wetlands and small woodland areas.

...The 3-foot square platform, donated by the Lake Koshkonong Wetland Association, was covered with twigs held in place with twine.

...Jim Nicholson, Alliant construction manager, said the crew put in an osprey pole at a different location last weekend, on the other side of Lake Koshkonong.