Raise the Hammer

Another idea as a 'before the Pan AM' games arrive, is in relation to the plan to close a lane of traffic and other measures, to limit the bird deaths on Eastport.

I take that to and from work every day during rush hour. It's rare that that road is busy. I say permanently close off the right/Niagara bound lane. Make that parking for fisherman and photographers who stop along there all the time anyway to enjoy that scenic view.

I also say as an added measure to protect these birds, is to install a long wall that is high enough so that when the birds who perch on it take flight, they won't get smucked by a transport. The issue now is that they sit on the cement abutments and can't get up fast enough to avoid speeding traffic. Also, slow down traffic in this span as well.

That cement wall will have perch holes all over it and of course the birds will sit on top too. It will have the words HAMILTON large across the whole, and 'A City of Waterfalls' under it. Tap into the lake, and have water running down it during the spring/summer/early fall months. We create a centre piece, advertise our waterfall community, save the birds, and create a tourist spot all at the same time.

To the 'we have too many birds' opposition: Running them over is not an acceptable way to rid ourselves of them and neither is hunting. With technology, there must be a bag of seeds we can drop off on those islands during mating season,that acts like a form of birth control or something when swallowed, that is safe and would not harm them if they ate 100. Kind of like Vitamin C - they would just release anything beyond what their bodies need. Drop enough to lower the number of birds that produce. Not to limit new births all together.

Either way there has to be a more humane way to bring down that population some. Otherwise, I love those islands and all those birds. There just needs to be a happy medium of nature and water pollutants.

Comment edited by lawrence on 2013-08-29 11:32:30