Berlin Lake touches into three counties, northeastern Stark, southeastern Portage, and northwestern Mahoning. This morning while having my coffee, I decided to take a ride in my neighborhood and check on how successful the Osprey nesting was this year, around the Berlin Lake Area. I found ten nests, there are probably more to be found, all with an average of two juveniles, sometimes three. This years kids all looked to be about ready to fledge. Both adults were present at most of the sites. About twenty youngsters for 2015 for this relatively small area, is pretty amazing. 40+/- Ospreys for a two hour ride in Ohio, not bad. Of the ten nests, five were on cell towers, two on placed hacking poles, two on wooden utility poles, and one on a high tension tower. No trees! The two on the cross bars of the wooden utility poles are right on the edge of the road and amazingly down low. These you need to see. The locations of these two are the southeast corner of Greenbower Street NE and SR225, and just west of the Deerfield Circle on the southside of US224, you can't miss them. To think back in the early nineteen eighties, I can, an Osprey in this area was a reasonably rare sighting. My how times have changed. They seem to love the cell towers. A map of the nest locations found today can be provided upon request. If anyone finds a location not shown on my map, please let me know about it.
 
Bob Lane / Mahoning County
                                          
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