FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com JULY 31, 2014 • THE COURIER SUN 11 JAMAICA BAY OSPREYS TAKE OFF BY SALVATORE LICATA [email protected] Jamaica Bay has some new fl ight patterns. Coley and Coley Two (C2), the ospreys that call Jamaica Bay home, just added some new chicks to their nests about a month ago. While Coley, whose nest can be seen from Cross Bay Boulevard in Broad Channel, had three chicks for two years in a row now, C2, whose nest is on the Yellowbar Marsh, has had some trouble. Last year she did not make her nest, which can weigh over 500 pounds, soft enough for the hatchlings, causing the eggs to crack before they were ready to hatch. This year she had two baby chicks that are doing well, according to Shalini Gopie, a representative from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. While C2’s chicks are still too young to fl y, Coley’s offspring just started to take fl ight about a week ago. “They’ve gotten their freedom,” Gopie said. Both Coley and C2 are part of a tracking project in which the wildlife refuge collects data on where the birds fl y during their migrations, according to a 2012 New York Times article. During their southern migration, Coley has been tracked as far as Colombia and C2 has been tracked to Venezuela, according to Gopie. The refuge has been low on funding for these tracking projects, which can help keep the osprey population growing in the bay. To fi nd out more about the project or to follow the osprey, visit jamaicabayosprey.org. THE QUEENS COURIER/Photo by Salvatore Licata The signs are up for the new Key Food location in Howard Beach. Cross Bay Key Food set to open at end of summer BY SALVATORE LICATA [email protected] Howard Beach is fi nally ready to open its second largest supermarket. Key Food, located on 164th Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard, is set to open at the “end of the summer,” according to a spokeswoman for the Key Food Corporation. It has been a long-awaited opening for the building that has been out of commission since Hurricane Sandy. There were rumors throughout the neighborhood that the store was not going to open at all. The announcement that Key Food was coming to the boulevard came more than a year ago and many theorized the store wasn’t big enough for refrigeration of its products. But with signs going up this week and workers fi ling in and out of the site, the opening appears imminent. The shop will be branded as a Key Food “Fresh” location, which will compete with Waldbaum’s, the only other supermarket on the boulevard. Photo by jamaicabayosrpey.org/Don Riepe C2’s new chicks at their Yellowbar Marsh nest. Business Checking with a little something extra. 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