Out of the approx 8000 towers under me where I work, I spend $10k a month to
the F&WS so they can tell me what
can and can't do with birds, nests, and such. It's no fun. Get an Eagle's
nest and it's a 600' radius you have
to stay back here in Florida.
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Larry
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:30 PM
To: Tower and HF antenna construction topics.
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hawk's nest platform
I have hawks on my 45G tower often. I have a work platform but I don't
recall seeing them
use it. They use the antennas and the guy attachments (of all things).
Fortunately, they don't
seem interested in nesting on the tower.
73, Larry W6NWS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathaniel Lee" <n1bnc@yahoo.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hawk's nest platform
A rohn work platform perhaps? For a mast, it would only need a u-bolt.
Nat Lee
Somersworth, NH
--- On Fri, 3/12/10, Dale L Martin <kg5u@hal-pc.org> wrote:
From: Dale L Martin <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
Subject: [TowerTalk] Hawk's nest platform
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 9:45 AM
A pair of red-shouldered hawks have constructed and are sitting a nest
in a pine tree in the front yard of house down the street from me.
They are very likely the same pair that damaged my C3E 20m
reflector--one or both perched on the element on one side or the other
of the boom breaking the element-boom rivets.
Since they regularly use my mast and less often my C3E to perch, I got
to thinking that if they nested on the tower top, maybe they would do
their perching elsewhere other than the C3E.
Has anyone ever put up a platform suitable for nest-building
(low-walled, holed for drainage, etc.) on the top of their mast?
73,
dale, kg5u
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