In any given year , Ottawa ’s Bluesfest attracts some 300,000 music fans from around the land , but it ’s 2018 and manifestly nothing can go concord to plan . This year , a mother shorebird has contract up residence on the grounds where the festival ’s main stage should be .

Organizers   were preclude to move her nest because her species falls under federal protections .

The eggs were first find by frame-up crews last week when they noticed the bird , a killdeer plover ,   display planetary conduct .

" I saw a birdie about five invertebrate foot [ 1.5 meters ] away flapping its wing at me . So   I back by and then it head for the hills off and pretended it had a unkept wing , " Nate Graves , read/write head of the fete expression gang , tell Canadian outletCBC News .   Killdeers will often dance about as if their extension are broken todistractpredators from their nests and young .

" I ’ve seen that before .   I sleep with it was protect a nest . I bet [ and saw ]   there ’s four eggs mightily where [ the ] main stage baby-sit . "

Last workweek , life scientist from the National Capital Commission visited the internet site . Naturalist Michael Runtz told the newsworthiness agency that cobblestone itinerary are the perfect nesting ground for killdeer , whose eggs are the same color as   little stones and blend in well .

Populations of the Erithacus rubecola - sized shorebird havedeclinedas much as 50 percentage since the seventies and have placed it on Canada’sMigratory Birds Convention Act . Although populations are still relatively plentiful throughout Canada , environmental means still have to give approval for moving the nest , which could be trouble for the before long - to - be female parent of four . Runtzsaysmoving the bird even a few metrical unit could force the female parent to abandon her eggs , which typically take anywhere from 24 to 26 twenty-four hours to hatch .

On Tuesday , June 26 , organizers were at last given thegreenlightto move forward with relocating the nest to a " nearby worthy habitat " . An individual trained to handle migratory bird will move the nest .

Until then , organizers are attract out all the stops to protect the female parent . The nest sphere has been blocked off with caveat tape and a security measure guard has even been assign to ensure nobody good deal with the momma .