It’s been a weird year for breeding ospreys throughout the state. Ben Wurst, senior wildlife biologist for Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, started to notice this spring that a number of healthy pairs in our area had not reproduced – including the couple viewable on the organization’s popular osprey camera in Barnegat Light, as well as a known pair on Long Beach Island’s south end and another on the Mullica River, to the southwest of LBI.