Not necessarily a good idea. The pump/valve/ducting assemblies at the top formed the home of several birds nests. So unless one enjoys the chatter of many birdies during nesting season…
Then there were the insects. We watched the engine being crane-lifted then moved from its original location to our other campus site (where the F-1 is now) during our massive consolidation project years ago. The lift: Once the bell-shaped portion (nozzle) cleared the concrete pad it had been resting on for fifty or so years, you could see what must have been many hundreds of insects – large and small – boiling out of the nozzle and onto the pad. The sight made me shiver. It would have been different for me if they had been bees… and ‘interesting’ for others standing too close.
