It\u2019s not uncommon for folks to make their summer home in Walker, but one of its newest residents is overstaying its welcome, as an osprey has made its nest in one of the light poles above Ostlund Field at Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School.<\/p>\n
While the osprey\u2019s there, the lights cannot be turned on. In addition, the migratory bird is federally protected and its nest cannot be moved while there are eggs and young in the nest, except in rare circumstances, ones in which its location becomes a hazard to the public or the bird (i.e., a nest atop a power line or telephone pole that could catch fire).<\/p>\n
So, until the osprey leaves, which usually happens sometime in the late summer or early fall, all activities at the stadium will be held during daylight hours, forcing both the soccer and football teams to move their games to 5 p.m. starts until further notice.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the beautiful things about living up north is, there\u2019s wildlife all over the place. It\u2019s unfortunate that this group of birds has set up a nest right in our football field, in beautiful Ostlund Field,\u201d said W-H-A football head coach Aaron Pfeiffer, quipping, \u201cEveryone wants to hang out here\u2014even the osprey does.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cThe kids are doing a better-than-average job of not making it a distraction. They want to play football, so I guess if it can\u2019t be under the lights, they\u2019ll take a game at 5 o\u2019clock. So, it\u2019s been better than we thought it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once there are no longer osprey eggs or young in the nest, the school can get a permit issued from the Minnesota DNR for its removal.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the girls\u2019 home soccer game on Tuesday, Sep. 1 and the home football game on Thursday, Sept. 3, have been moved to 5 p.m. kickoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not uncommon for folks to make their summer home in Walker, but one of its newest residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-879117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}