Posted on 11/10/2014 7:01:11 PM PST by PROCON
Now that a crucial section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been replaced by a new $6.4 billion span, nobody needs it anymore -- nobody except about 800 birds who call the decrepit, 78-year-old segment home.
The double-breasted cormorants - protected, though not endangered - have nested along the bridge for decades, and have so far shown no interest in relocating to the shiny new section that replaced the eastern section of the famed bridge. Officials have tried pricey decoys, bird recordings and even specially-made nests installed underneath the new span to lure them roughly 100 feet next door. The effort to demolish the old section, damaged 25 years ago in the massive Loma Prieta earthquake, is being held up by the birds' unwillingness to move, and critics, who say the delays could cost taxpayers $33 million, are crying fowl.
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They’re cormorants, why don’t these rocket scientists try fish instead of recordings and decoys?
Or they could simply blow the bridges. The smart ones will go somewhere else.
FMCDH(BITS)
The Double Breasted Seersuckers are have been endangered since the early 50’s.
The smart birds will move. The stupid ones will die.
The species improves.
I have a friend who literally hates cormorants because they eat so many fish. Says when he was a boy he never saw them. Now, in the spring they are all over the water.
They need some peregrine falcons.
Hell, no...we won’t go!!
We’ve reached a point where animals are more valued than people. What can we do to convince liberals to simply ignore the birds and dismantle the bridge?
a) Show them a correlative link between the birds and global warming
b) Point out that these are mostly WHITE birds, and not deserving of special privilege
c) Point out that these are AMERICAN birds, not here illegally, therefore we should do whatever like to them.
d) something else
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You won't last long with that screen name, we don't take too kindly to blog pimps...
I got called to go out there on a boat a few years back because there was a stink over how to deal with their excrement and feathers on those bases and they wanted me to sample and analyze it for metals (I frequently find myself wondering “Who thinks this s*** up?!?!” and have yet to solve this mystery).
There was hardly enough to enable any actual sampling. My suggestion that it just be hosed off with sea water was met with “Ah, well, we can’t do that, it would never be permitted”... To which I responded, “well, if you fart around long enough the first good rain will take care of it”...
Plenty of those, I got an awesome shot of one destroying a pigeon at the Petaluma maintenance station in the spring. To the pigeons credit, it did put up a spirited, all be it ineffective, fight.
Amazing, thanks for doing the job, somebody has to do it..:-)
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