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Interesting place to build a nest

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MD Automation

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Not exactly sure, but in the top pic from David, it appears that there are 3 cutouts underneath the nest. Not like an explusion fuse cutout, just a switch type. And they sure look like they are hanging down.

So maybe one side of those 3 lines is isolated?

And those birds are smarter than we give them credit for ;)
 
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LarryFine said:
Google images: eagles nest on transmission tower
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Osprey's. They're pretty common here. Had one nest on the lot behind us go down with a tree during a storm that had chicks in it. The conservation people relocated them to another active nest and they were successfully adopted.
 
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MD Automation said:
Not exactly sure, but in the top pic from David, it appears that there are 3 cutouts underneath the nest. Not like an explusion fuse cutout, just a switch type. And they sure look like they are hanging down.

So maybe one side of those 3 lines is isolated?

And those birds are smarter than we give them credit for ;)
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My back was towards rt 18 when I took the picture, I guess the highway side would be toward the utility.

Im thinking not more than 1&1/2 miles south of there I past a sub station.

There starting to increase in population don't see to many eagles in the wild
 
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Dsg319 said:
Shoot, and we have all these people complaining about EMF living near to the power lines.
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Looking at the nest closely you see three looking down watching me.

We don't know what the long term effects that might have.

I see a lot of birds resting on power lines huddled together in the winter, often wondered how much heat they where benefiting from ,the electric current in those lines
 
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Elect117

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That is why they sometimes install owls on poles.

It usually shorts itself out :)
MD Automation said:
Not exactly sure, but in the top pic from David, it appears that there are 3 cutouts underneath the nest. Not like an explusion fuse cutout, just a switch type. And they sure look like they are hanging down.

So maybe one side of those 3 lines is isolated?

And those birds are smarter than we give them credit for ;)
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That is a switch to parallel feeders. Both sides are most likely energized by different circuits.
 
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