COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 Power crews are taking a proactive approach to prevent outages this spring \u2014 by giving ospreys a safer place to call home.<\/p>\n
As nesting season ramps up, crews are installing 35- to 60-foot poles topped with dedicated nesting platforms. The goal is simple: keep large bird nests away from live electrical equipment, where they can cause outages or even fires.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of a broader effort to reduce animal-related disruptions. So far in 2025, crews have installed more than 18,000 animal protection devices across the service area, including these elevated nesting structures.<\/p>\n
In Pickerington, about 5,000 customers recently lost power after an osprey nest fell into electrical equipment, triggering an outage and sparking a fire. According to a line crew supervisor, the nest burned up \u2014 but fortunately, there were no eggs or chicks inside, and the adult bird was not harmed.<\/p>\n
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After the outage, crews installed a 60-foot nesting pole nearby and relocated the nest to the new platform. The osprey later returned to its new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 Power crews are taking a proactive approach to prevent outages this spring \u2014 by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-598189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}