Camera To Capture Ospreys

A tiny camera will be mounted on a tree near a pair of nesting ospreys to film their activity, and the pictures will be carried on the city’s Web site.

“We’re still working through some bugs and glitches, but it’ll go through” said Colleen O’Grady, a Bellevue parks spokeswoman. “People have really connected with this whole idea of the wildlife being there.”

The camera is mounted on a tall tree just outside Meydenbauer Beach Park. Bernadette Rausch, 84, and her husband, Joseph, 87, who described themselves as bird lovers, offered the tree in their yard and electricity for the camera.

The camera, about the size of a penlight, was donated by Tim Brown, the Bellevue resident and nature expert hired by the city in March to build a nest at the park before the raptors migrated back for the spring. They returned home April 15.