The Canadian Armed Forces has slammed the brakes on its downtown Hamilton military training because it worried it was disturbing a nest of falcons.
Helicopters flew low over the Stelco Tower for routine training Tuesday, and were scheduled to continue the exercises Wednesday and Thursday. But the forces got word that a citizen had complained that it caused “some disturbance to a falcon nest in the vicinity of Stelco Tower,” said Capt. Jamie Donovan.
“It was determined almost immediately given this new information provided to us by a concerned citizen that we would terminate any further training,” he said.
The Canadian Armed Forces were scheduled to do three days of training this week. They ended up doing one because it disturbed a nest of falcons.