A family of ospreys have finally taken to their new home near Stone Bridge in Onset.

The ospreys returned to the site of their old home near South Water Street this spring to find that NSTAR had removed a nest from one of its utility poles (which they did last July).

A device was placed on the pole to prevent them from re-nesting there, therefore the birds could not rebuild when they returned, yet they continued to struggle in an attempt to build a new nest.

When complaints from neighbors about the struggling birds began to mount, NSTAR worked with residents and the town of Wareham to resolve the problem, and in late May, a new pole was erected near the site of the old nest.

Now that there’s a new pole/platform in place, the birds, whose population fell to as low as 11 in 1964 before rising once the pesticide DDT was banned in the 1970s, have began to build a new nest.

An unidentified neighbor called Wareham Week over the weekend to say that the birds had begun to build a nest on the new pole/platform, and though no birds were seen by representatives of Wareham Week, there is clear evidence of nesting taking place.