I'm not sure signage would do anything meaningful. I can easily envision an updraft carrying a young bird right up and over the bridge (and into traffic) in an instant.
Tom Klein West Side From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of linda whyte Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 7:59 AM To: Klein, Tom R (DNR) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mou-net] Peregrine I'm so sad to hear that. I understand the concept of site-faithfulness for nesting, but wonder why that sort of recurring mishap doesn't drive them away for being too high-risk. It must be based only on success at getting fledglings out of the nest intact, not keeping them so. So I wonder if we couldn't have some sort of signs at the ends of the bridge, warning motorists to be on the look-out for foundering young Peregrines. We do it for deer, moose, even turtles (not to mention steep hills and falling rocks, though that's about motorist safety); why not for Peregrines? Linda Whyte On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Klein, Tom R (DNR) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Sadly, today I found the remains of one of the fledged falcons on the bridge deck (vehicle fatality). Last year I encountered a just-fledged (and just struck and killed) falcon at the same spot. Tom Klein West Side ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
