FPL emergency work will include installation of raptor guards!

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Shawnlei Breeding, Program Manager for Florida Audubon EagleWatch  wrote with some good news. She writes:

I wanted to let you know that FPL has had to schedule an emergency repair to safeguard against a large outage at a switch on a pole approx. 330 ft from BO002. The work is scheduled for tomorrow morning. They will do some initial low noise groundwork to prepare the site and then will have to do a little bit of aerial work that shouldn’t last longer than 10-15 minutes. They will have a monitor on site to observe the eagles as always.

This is coincidentally the same pole you were concerned about that had lost the raptor guards. FPL is taking advantage of this opportunity to have the technicians put the guards on the pole while they are up there doing their other work, so that’s good!