A Barrington resident who first noticed that an osprey platform and nest had been destroyed by Tuesday morning's storm, has since spotted the ospreys using a nearby platform as a feeding station. David Winsor, who lives near Allin's Cove, serves as an osprey nest monitor for RI Osprey Project, which is run by the Audubon Society of Rhode Island. Shortly after a thunderstorm ripped across the area, Mr. Winsor noticed that a man-made platform that carried an occupied osprey nest had been destroyed. "When the rain stopped I walked to the cove and saw that the platform, supported by a telephone pole, had snapped off about six feet above grade. It was originally close to 18 feet tall," he wrote. Mr. Winsor said that by about 8 a.m. — about an hour and a half after the storm hit — he could spot one of the ospreys in a tree near the cove. "As near as I can tell from the videos and still shots taken with a telephoto lens, the surviving trio consists of the adult female and two juveniles. Later in the day I saw the adult carrying nesting material but all she could do was circle the stump of a post where the platform used to be. I also saw her carrying a fish so it might be possible that she is attempting to feed the surviving juveniles. It is certainly difficult to listen to the frantic calls but I guess that is life in the wild." On Thursday, Mr. Winsor offered an update: "A ray of hope for the Allin’s Cove survivors. The two juveniles and the adult are seen on the east platform, which they are using as a feeding station. This will probably not resolve the problem long term but it may ensure that the juveniles will live long enough to learn to hunt and become self sufficient. Right now they seem to be totally dependent on the adult for food." "Back in 2005 there was a project involving the Corps of Engineers, The Town, the Barrington Land Trust and probably the State, to restore Allin’s Cove," Mr. Winsor wrote in a recent email. "Included in that project was the construction of two osprey platforms about 250 yards apart. Since 2011, the west most platform has been used by a pair who raised three chicks the first year, two the next, four in 2013 and four in 2014. The first year one of the chicks got tangled in fishing line in the nest…its fate was never determined. In 2013, one of the chicks flew into a telephone pole in pea soup fog on Pleasant St. "Last year they appeared to all survive. Last year I began videoing the platform, which I posted on Youtube. This year I have been a little more conscientious and started videoing on the day they returned, April 2. This season the pair raised three chicks, although we weren’t certain the youngest would survive given the abuse he received at the hand or beak of its older siblings... They are remarkable animals."