[TowerTalk] Hawk's nest platform

[Jim Walker]

An owl facing true north has been found to work well at keeping most birds
away.



-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:57 AM
To: 'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hawk's nest platform

Don't know if you want to encourage them, they are very very messy when it
comes to nesting and rearing young.

I two large Hawks mating at the moment on top of the tower and already the
mess is horrible, when they poop, they poop.  The very large young will
spend a lot of time dancing around on your elements.

I have Hawks by day and Barn Owls up there by night: -)

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dale L Martin


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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