[TowerTalk] Tower Bird Strikes "Proven"

[Stan or Patricia Griffiths]

Thanks, Dick, for bringing this to our attention.  It sounds like pure
BS to me where the tower strikes are involved . . .  I have had three
100+ foot towers with 12 guys on two of them and 9 guys on the third
one up for more than 25 years and I can't remember a SINGLE dead bird
incident anywhere near any of them.  I have seen hundreds of birds
resting on my beams all at the same time, so I know birds are near them
a lot.  They just don't fly into them.  Like I said, the report sounds
like pure BS to me.

A more likely explanation for the report is that you have a "bird
lover" who is also a "tower hater" and who fabricated this report to
justify eliminating towers.  It would be REAL INTERESTING to read the
actual report and see just what kind of towers they claim kill birds.
It might well be high powered microwave and the birds get fried when
they fly into the path of the RF.  So, did they do autopsies on the
bird bodies so they know for sure it was a collision that caused the
deaths instead of RF?  Inquiring minds want to know . . .

Stan  w7ni@teleport.com

Dick Flanagan wrote:

> Possible ammunition that could be used against tower installations.
>
> See http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/07/07/birddeaths.ap/
>
> 73, Dick
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