A female osprey perches on a branch Sunday, March 26, at Moraine State Park after returning to the area from migration. Submitted photo

In the mid-1990s, the Moraine Preservation Fund took part in an osprey reintroduction program and released 99 chicks into the wild to help the species, which was considered threatened in Pennsylvania at the time, to repopulate.

Michelle Huff, a board member of the Moraine Preservation Fund, said she likes to think the two osprey who have nested at Moraine State Park for the past several summers are related to the ones released at the park more than 20 years ago.

“They do go back to their same nest every single season,” Huff said. “I believe it has been the same pair since 2018 ... I have spent so much time with them.”