tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503660546571588475.post7816214574967517944..comments2024-02-29T22:11:38.931-08:00Comments on Laurelhurst Blog: Sign Audubon Society Petition For SDOT To Change SR520 Plans That Will Result In "Catastropic" Decline Of Shorebird Migration At Union Bay Natural AreaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503660546571588475.post-55838117407750566292015-02-12T09:17:09.172-08:002015-02-12T09:17:09.172-08:00While I like shore birds, I also like trees rather...While I like shore birds, I also like trees rather than a vista revealing cityscape, particularly as trees are what seem to naturally grow in the UBNA. They might also provide a better sound barrier from the 520 bridge traffic.<br /><br />It is not clear to me that migratory birds are the ancestral inhabitant of that space. It used to be water before the lowering of the lake in 1916, and I thought at one point the trees in UBNA had been chopped as part of the lumber operations that occupied that ground a century ago.<br /><br />I would think trees would harbor a year-round population of birds, also, not such a downgrade from a couple of intervals of interesting migratory birds.<br /><br />At the least, more thorough discussion would be necessary to convince me to advocate denuding the shoreline of the UBNA.John Vidalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09871768524749705799noreply@blogger.com