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Osprey came back from the brink once. Now chicks are dying in nests, and some blame overfishing

Osprey_Fish_Fight_22540GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. (AP) — Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a circle of sticks and pine cones on the weathered, guano-spattered platform. It’s a failed osprey nest, taken over by diving terns.