The Town of Chatham has installed an osprey nesting platform near a utility pole off of Bridge Street to prevent fires, power outages and electrocutions.
Officials say without an alternative, osprey often try to continue to build nests on utility poles putting the birds and the community at risk.
The town's conservation department, Eversource and volunteers say the platform location is near the site of an osprey nest that caught fire twice, leading to power outages.
The birds were not injured.
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