Source: Barb Glen, Producer.com, October 11, 2018
Nesting platforms can attract hawks to native prairie grasslands, benefitting both the birds and landowners
There may be fewer ground squirrels next spring at the Johnson property on southern Alberta’s Milk River Ridge.
That’s because there’s a new nesting site designed for ferruginous hawks, which love to eat pesky ground squirrels that proliferate in the area’s arid fescue grassland.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada and Fortis Alberta collaborated Sept. 26 to put up an artificial nesting pole on the 640-acre Johnson site that is surrounded by the Ross Lake Natural Area Grazing Reserve.
