I think i posted having to wear safety glasses and armed with can of wasp spray on a tower in San Angelo, Texas because of nest near an 11GHz dish and parent Birdy birds flying angrily at me..
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021, 12:07 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > Always nice to have giddy regulatory authorities than pissy ones. > > *From:* Aeron Wireless > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Osprey on towers > > Update: Just heard from the DNR. An egg-less nest is not protected. > However, they encourage you not to remove the nest unless there are no > other options. Once the nest is active (with egg or young birds) then there > are restrictions on climbing. Restrictions are based on what stage the > egg/birds are in. This stage may require permits as well - we didn't get > into that. This DNR biologist wants a max disruption of 2 hours during the > active nest stage. So she encourages spreading the work out over weeks with > short periods on the tower. > So I will be climbing ASAP. During my work, I'll install a camera pointing > at the nest so we know exactly what stage the nest is in. Plus a camera is > a nice gesture to the DNR, one they are giddy about. > Once I got a hold of the DNR biologist, they were very helpful and > accommodating. > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 10:45 AM James Howard <ja...@litewire.net> wrote: > >> I was out chatting with the farmer at one of our tower sites on a grain >> leg about a week ago and he told me that he had a pair of Ospreys build a >> nest on the top of the leg last year. He said he called a friend of his at >> the DNR and talked to him about it. The DNR guy said that if there are no >> eggs he was fine to tear it down but if there are eggs he needed to wait >> till they hatched and left before tearing it down. He had his nephew climb >> up and there was an egg but the egg had a hole in it so they took pictures >> and sent to the DNR. The DNR said that the birds often puncture their own >> eggs trying to move them around in the nest but since that was the only egg >> in the nest he was fine to take the whole nest down. He said he threw it >> all off and put an orange cone up there which has kept them off so far. >> As mentioned earlier, there are federal and state regulations so your >> mileage may vary depending on how your state (or possibly even who you talk >> to at the state). >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Jan-GAMs >> *Sent:* Friday, April 2, 2021 10:51 AM >> *To:* af@af.afmug.com >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Osprey on towers >> >> >> >> I wouldn't want it coming after me even if I were on the ground let alone >> a ladder! Most birds will defend their nest. Get an outdoor speaker, >> mount it as close as you can get it to the nest and play a looped recording >> of a yapping chihuahua. Birds don't stay around where they can't listen >> and talk to each other, even anti-social ones like raptors I think wouldn't >> like it. These are a world-wide species, why is it protected? >> >> On 4/2/21 7:15 AM, Aeron Wireless wrote: >> >> I got a call from a local DNR volunteer informing me that Ospreys are >> building a nest on my monopole platform. He's saying that because it's a >> protected bird, I can't climb the tower until they leave in the fall. I >> have an email into the state DNR but no response yesterday and today being >> a gov holiday I don't expect a response until next week. Kinda freaking out >> here. I need to mount a few PTP links. I was planning on a climb today, but >> am holding off to hear definitively. This is the main tower for my WISP. >> >> >> >> Google kung-fu led me to a NATE presentation that says that climbing can >> be done with precautions. Talked to the tower owner (a small private owner, >> not one of the big three) who suggested adding a ring below the platform >> with the nest for the new PTPs. Can this be done with the birds on the >> tower? >> >> >> >> Has anyone dealt with Ospreys before? >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *Total Control Panel* >> >> Login <https://portal.reflexion.net/login?domain=litewire.net> >> >> To: ja...@litewire.net >> <https://portal.reflexion.net/address-properties?aID=242260993&domain=litewire.net> >> >> From: af-boun...@af.afmug.com >> >> *You received this message because the domain afmug.com >> <http://afmug.com> is on your allow list.* >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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