The proposed tower is to be built on an 800 foot hill near Sebago, ME which is about 40 miles from the Maine Coast. This region is close enough to the coast that it can be considered on the Atlantic Migration Flyway, a well documented route for large numbers of night-migrating birds making their way in spring and fall migration. As with many other communications companies across the continent, Harron is now trying to meet deadlines imposed by the FCC for providing Digital Television service. Because of this pressure, they may not have the time to be as perceptive to the residents of southern Maine as they might otherwise.
Maine is largely wilderness and the people are close to nature.
Bird Mortality - microwave towers. U.S. Fish Wildl. The following summary of this report was published in Avery, et al 1980. It reports of a bird kill on only one night but the study seems to have been initiated because large kills had been reported on previous occasions. On 14 August, two transmitting stations in Maine were visited to collect information on possible bird mortality.