FREDERICTON — A new sculpture has been commissioned and a platform has been built — but a New Brunswick village’s oversized avian avatar has still not returned…
A recent municipal amalgamation has stalled payment for the sculpture. “They invested in the platform, the steps and there’s no bird,” Kara Becker, the former deputy mayor of Dorchester, said with a laugh. “It actually looks terrible because, as you know, Dorchester has the prison there and it had a jail and it kind of looks like hanging gallows to me.” She said people in Dorchester are willing to raise funds for the statue.
The semipalmated sandpiper looks similar to a sparrow, weighing about 20 grams — less than a handful of coins — with a 30-centimetre wingspan to power its long trek. Starting in early July and peaking by mid-August, millions of these birds stop on the Fundy beaches to feed and double their weight before making the 2,500-kilometre journey to South America, said Nick Lund, a network manager for Maine Audubon.
Once Shep is on display, it will join a host of other larger-than-life roadside monuments in the province, including Blowhard the Bony Horse in Cardwell, Lady Potato in Grand Falls, a giant axe in Nackawic, a lobster in Shediac, and Buttercup the Cow and Daisy the Calf in Sussex.
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