[TowerTalk] Re: Power lines, hawks, and fire ignition

[Doug Grant]

>The utility fought with animal rights activists and environmentalists for a
while until the utility came up with the idea of constructing platforms at
the very top of the double-pole structures.  As a result, the outages
ceased, the birds had a safe roosting place where they actually built nests,
and that was the end of the issue.<

Couldn't they have just used one of those plastic owls to scare away the birds?

Of course, it would need to be turned to face true North to work...

73,

Doug K1DG