by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 9, 2016 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting
But the authority claims the note was delivered around the Palmer estate “in error”, and has launched an investigation into its “clearly inappropriate” content. The menacing letter, purporting to be from “quality assurance officer” Gassimu Jah, is littered with grammatical errors and orders residents to stop feeding pigeons due to a build-up of excrement on Littlefield Close and Greatfield Close. It reads: “Islington are not prepared to allow this kind of behaviour and will take steps to enforce the conditions of tenancy and covenant which may [sic] severe consequences including court action and could lead to injunction or the loss of your home. “Islington council have appointed a ‘professional witness’ to obtain video and hear say evidence to identify the culprits of this behaviour. No further warnings will be given regarding this issue.” But after being approached by the Gazette, a council spokesman said: “This letter was sent out in error and is clearly inappropriate. We are looking into how it went out and apologise for any upset. “We would only ever use a professional witness in instances where we believe serious crimes are happening or suspected, which is clearly not the case here.” Ryan Ross, who lives in Greatfield Close, told London24: “It seems strange it would say that they were delivered in error. They were hand delivered on Tuesday – I think the council is backtracking.” The 28-year-old added: “The council has delivered letters like this before, with a similar tone. It had a go at me once for not using a parking permit properly. “I never feed pigeons myself, so I didn’t feel particularly threatened by the letter. To be honest, I’ve never even noticed any pigeons around here. “What struck me most was the threat of spying. The people who feed pigeons tend to be elderly, so if this was real, it was targeted at them. Either way, it’s not something that makes you feel welcome.”
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 6, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services
A pigeon club member has spoken of his devastation after 100 of his birds were killed in a suspected arson attack.
After seeing the flames from his Washington home, Bill Scott rushed to Barmston Allotments to try and save the birds he has been racing since 2009, but all perished in the fire.
Crews from Washington and Marley Park spent three hours tackling the blaze on Saturday night which saw the lofts razed to the ground.
Bill, 62, has been told that the incident, which happened at around 9pm, is being treated as suspected arson.
“It’s devastating to get there and see those birds on the ground, knowing I couldn’t get to them,” he said. “There were seventy adult birds and thirty young ones who had only just hatched.
“I live at the other side of the railway track from the allotments. I saw the smoke and could smell it, but didn’t realise it was the allotments until I looked out of the window.”
Though Bill’s birds could not be saved, his son Hayden, 22, managed to save some birds from a neighbouring loft.
The dad added: “Since I’ve left work I’m down here every day. I’m in a racing club and they are good pigeons. It’s devastating because they won’t fly at night, so even if they could get out of the loft, they wouldn’t fly, they just sit there and burn.”
He added: “I’ve been told that it was multiple fires so someone has set out to destroy the loft deliberately. I can’t bring my birds back, but I hope something can be done to stop this happening again.”
In 2012, thousands of pounds in damage was caused when fire tore through the same allotments.
The fierce blaze destroyed years of hard work by proud owners and left the ground scorched and covered in ash. On that occasion, fanciers had been able to save some of the birds.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 5, 2016 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting
A new ban in this New Mexico city is ruffling a lot of feathers.
Carlsbad’s city council passed an ordinance prohibiting feeding pigeons, with punishments that could mean fines or even jail time.
The Cavern City blamed pigeons for spreading disease, damaging buildings and ruining outdoor experiences in the ordinance.
Many of the public health risks come from an abundance of pigeon droppings across the city.
The ban’s goal is to drive the pigeon population down by cutting off their food supply.
Pigeons have become a major issue for this New Mexico city, officials noted.
Pigeons have become a major issue for this New Mexico city, officials noted.
“It will help move them away from the city, move them out of the middle of this city,” Woods Hougton, program director for the Eddy Count Extension Office, told KRQE. “They’re called trash birds because they communicate a lot of known diseases to both livestocks and humans.”
The feeding ban will only apply to feral pigeons, as “domesticated birds used for recreation, racing, or show,” as well as injured pigeons being rehabilitated are excluded from the new ordinance.
Enthusiasts with feeders will be allowed to keep their birdhouses as well — as long as it doesn’t attract more pigeons.
While violating the feeding law can result in a harsh punishment, council members have said they hope it will not escalate to jail time.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 3, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting
Pigeons roosting under the Santa Cruz Wharf were determined to be a major source of the high bacteria levels.
City crews are taking action this week to keep the fowl from fouling ocean waters.
“What we’re doing now is some bird-exclusion work” said Santa Cruz Wharf Supervisor John Bombaci.
Cowell Beach’s dirty water confounded the city for years, and the city’s Cowell Working Group conducted several studies to find a source causing high bacteria levels that made the area unsafe for swimming.
On Thursday, crews were busy installing stainless steel fencing underneath the Santa Cruz Wharf. The fencing extends more than 200 feet, from the beginning of the water, to the end.
“We’re using it to barricade out nesting areas for pigeons down in the transition zone, the tidal area on Cowell Beach,” Bombaci said.
Cowell Beach’s waters exceeded bacteria standards for 200 days in 2015.
“There may be other natural occurring things that we probably won’t be able to control, so we’re looking at the controllable sources, and this is one of the most obvious,” said Scott Collins, assistant to the city manager.
High bacteria levels always spike in the summer.
“The summer is when most people are on the beach. So our goal is to goal is to get all the infrastructural needs met, all the barriers installed, before summer,” said Nik Strong-Cvetich, executive director of Save the Waters Coalition.
The cost for fencing underneath the wharf was $50,000.
Ocean water quality will be tested regularly at Cowell Beach to determine if the anti-bird efforts are making a difference.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jun 26, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, UltraSonic Bird Control
Urgent repairs will be made to netting under a bridge in Shrewsbury following reports that pigeons were getting caught and starving to death.
Shropshire Council said it would send out a team to the bridge near Shrewsbury Railway Station to tackle the problem.
Wildlife experts today urged people in the town not to encourage pigeons in the wake of the issue.
Stuart Edmunds, from Shropshire Wildlife Trust has said the birds have become caught and not been able to get out.
He said: “The netting has been put there under the bridge to stop pigeons from roosting in it. But unfortunately it is only a thin netting and has been ripped away so the pigeons have been roosting there and have been unable to get out. Although they are considered a pest people do feed pigeons and that is one reason they are doing so well in the town. There are lots of different ways to put off pigeons but the way this bridge has been constructed netting is the only option. The easiest way to deter pigeons is to try not to leave too much food out as they become pretty well used to where food is left out. The main this is what the council does which is reducing the number of roosting sites there are. I don’t like the word pest that much because pigeons are not like the other kinds of pests. But a pest is like rats or mice – it is anything that develops a relationship between themselves and human activities. The main problem is pigeons flying and dropping their waste all over the place.”
Following reports of the pigeons getting caught in the netting, Shropshire Council has said it will send a team out to repair it as soon as possible.
Tim Sneddon, Shropshire Council’s environmental maintenance manager, said: “The railway bridge is owned and maintained by Network Rail. However, the former Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council entered into an agreement with them to maintain the underside of the netting, which Shropshire Council took on responsibility for in 2009. We regularly attend to undertake repairs when lorries catch the netting. Some birds do get access from the track side, and Shropshire Council are unable to do any works to stop that.”
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jun 25, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes, UltraSonic Bird Control
An irate phone call to the newspaper last week brought up an interesting question: what to do about pigeons pooping on a 12th-floor balcony? An octogenarian in Oshawa was fed up with the mess and insistent that something be done to rid him of his unwelcome visitors. Stymied over how to help, the editor passed the query on to me.
Smiling wryly, I pictured aluminum pie plates dangling in the breeze, likely contravening every condo and apartment regulation in the book. Or what really would work — stretching garden netting from balcony roof to railing, screening pigeons out. Lightweight, cheap and durable, the one-inch mesh is virtually invisible; I know because I have it tacked outside my sunroom windows, stopping birds from flying into the glass.
And then I thought of the most natural, long-term, cost-free solution for our caller’s problem: peregrine falcons. The world’s swiftest birds have made headline news moving into Toronto, then Oshawa in recent years, and their favourite prey happens to be rock pigeons. The two species, in fact, evolved together, both nesting on cliff ledges where four-legged predators can’t get at their eggs or babies.
The docile feral pigeons happily at home in every urban centre around the planet have a wild and romantic history as mountain dwellers of Eurasia, fast, strong fliers traveling long distances to bring food back to their young. Since their main diet is seeds and grains, numbers grew when human hunter-gatherers settled down and started farming. People began domesticating pigeons 5,000 years ago, for food, sport and carrying messages, and brought them along everywhere they went, including the New World in the 1600s. Even Charles Darwin bred pigeons, and based his argument for natural selection on how his own birds changed through the generations.
Peregrine means ‘wanderer,’ and peregrine falcons got to every corner of the globe on their own, though falconers have been breeding them, too, for centuries. Widespread use of DDT wiped wild peregrines out of most of North America in the 1950s, but a ban on the pesticide and great efforts by conservation groups have managed to slowly bring them back. Like pigeons, peregrines have readily adapted to cities, nesting on ledges of high-rise buildings.
So it comes full circle, with two ancient neighbours meeting up again right here in Durham. Maybe peregrines will move in near our frustrated caller and scare his pigeons away, or at least keep numbers in check.
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