Ravens Won’t Leave the Nest
A group of about eight ravens has taken up residence on CBC’s transmission tower in Aklavik, N.W.T.
Local CBC technicians have tried to evict the birds, they’ve even solicited the help of local firefighters who tried to blast the nest out with their hose.
But, as the local renewable resources officer said “The fire truck didn’t have enough pressure to blow the nest out. Didn’t even have enough pressure to reach the nest up in the tower. It was too high,” Ian McLeod said.
Aklavik is located 55 kilometres northwest of Inuvik and about 1,150 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife.
A cbc.ca story on the birds is here.
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Trying to recall whether Aklavik falls into Dene or Inuit jurisdiction, and which of those groups considers ravens the better of several omens…just in case.
Those ravens in the North are SCARY! Remember “The Birds”???
“technicians”
Pumpkins,
Ravens won’t leave moribund tower — do you see a metaphor here?