A small bird, nest and four eggs hold up major Ottawa music festival
OTTAWA — A small plover and her egg-laden nest are holding hostage the national capital’s biggest music festival.
Workers came across the killdeer and its nest just as they were preparing to set up one of the main stages at Ottawa’s 11-day Bluesfest event, which takes place in front of the Canadian War Museum.
The bird and the four eggs — which enjoy protected status in Canada — are nestled on a cobblestone patch that would normally be directly underneath the main stage.
Eggs generally take between 24 and 26 days to hatch and it is unusual for them not to hatch by mid-June. But the organizers of the music festival have no control over the situation.