"Two Bald Eaglets home at Taquanyah" ~ Dunnville Chronicle, June 25, 1986

Two, six-week-old bald eagles were carefully released from crates at the top of a thirty-foot high tower.  "In two months they will be flying freely, huge and magnificent, above the marsh."

In the article, a photo of the late Bruce Duncan, interpreter at Taquanyah Nature Centre, proudly displaying the crates being removed from a Ministry of Natural Resources vehicle and hoisting them to the top of five telephone poles where the man-made eagles' nest would serve as the eagles new home.
There was a great effort in the mid-eighties to re-introduce the bald eagle, then an endangered species, to southern Ontario.  This was a combined effort by The Grand River Conservation Authority, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, World Wildlife Fund, Hamilton Naturalists' Club and Ontario Hydro.



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That was Haldimand in 1986.  Sadly, in 2013 we ruthlessly destroy an eagles' nest built by these magnificent birds themselves.

Environmentalist David Suzuki encouraged and endorsed the Ontario Green Energy Act, 2009.  He stated in a recently televised interview that he believes that the intended job creations are happening.

Read Dirty Business, The Reality of Ontario's Rush to Wind Power, available at The Neat Little Bookshop. $12.99.

One wonders what Suzuki would say about the eagle nest that was destroyed under police surveillance on Sunday to make way for wind turbines in the Fisherville, Haldimand County, area.



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