Goose claims nest at Missoula baseball stadium, leaving osprey homeless
Let’s call her Clara. She’s the goose in the osprey nest at the Missoula Osprey’s
baseball stadium.
Clara and her mate vigorously defended the nest on its manmade platform
beyond the centerfield fence at Ogren-Allegiance Park when the usual
summer residents returned several weeks ago.
It’s spring, and things change by the minute. But as of late Thursday afternoon,
the goose was still there, hunched in the wind over eggs that are hatching or
soon will be, her slender neck and black-and-white head silhouetted
against the overcast sky.
The osprey that normally inhabit the nest? They were still upset,
not to mention amorous. And homeless.
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