07.06.2007

Birds cranes and lifts

This time of years birds are hatching their chicks, cranes and aerial lifts can be ideal nesting sites.

In the UK employees of the country’s leading access rental company had a surprise when they inspected a scissor lift component compartment.
Inside was a nest full of chicks.
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Whats this in a scissor lift?

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The chicks think it is feeding time

The port of Olympia in Washington state has become accustomed to peregrine falcons nesting in one of their big port cranes.
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The 55 metre high Olympia cranes/nesting boxes

Three years ago employees fitted a nesting box after the nesting birds were dislodged by the working crane.
Finally last year three chicks hatched and successfully left the nest.

This year three new peregrine falcon chicks, two males and one female -- hatched in early May and are doing well.
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Two of the peregrine falcons