by johnnymarin | Feb 25, 2018 | Pigeon Patrol's Services
Said Charlotte Moore, director of BBC content: “The culmination of the BBC’s ambitious four years of programming to mark the World War One centenary is being honored on BBC One with the world premiere of a very special film from the highly acclaimed Peter Jackson that will bring unheard voices from a hundred years ago to life for a whole new generation to experience”. Tied in with the conflict’s centenary, the aim is to premiere the film at the BFI London Film Festival this autumn, accompanied by screenings in cinemas around the country. It’s sped up, it’s fast, like Charlie Chaplin, grainy, jumpy, scratchy, and it immediately blocks you from actually connecting with the events on screen. This footage looks like it was shot in the last week or two, with high-definition cameras. Trafalgar Releasing will distribute the film theatrically in the United Kingdom, whilst it will be aired on BBC One along with a companion “making-of” documentary. Every school in the United Kingdom will also receive a copy.
“We have made a movie which shows the experience of what it was like to fight in this war, not strategy [or] battles”.
They include a mass participation artwork on 10 June marking the act that gave the first British women the right to vote; Rachel Whiteread casting the inside of a Nissen hut and placing it in a Yorkshire forest where a prisoner of war camp was located; and Danny Boyle creating a “mass participation project across the UK” on 11 November, Armistice Day, with more details announced closer to the time. Created by the arts group Artichoke, it will involve women and girls in processions on the streets of Belfast, Cardiff, London and Edinburgh wearing the suffragette colours of green, white and violet.
The role of pigeons as message-carriers in the conflict will be celebrated in a work where a “large flock of pigeons, each carrying a tiny LED light” is “conducted” at dusk “in a spectacle of flight”.
He added: “It’s not the usual film you would expect of the First World War”.
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by johnnymarin | Feb 24, 2018 | Pigeon Patrol's Services
The British Homing World Show of the Year featured more than 2,000 birds in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens. That was an increase on the 1,700 that entered last year. The popular event is reportedly worth around £10m to the resort’s economy and has also raised more than £3m for charity. This year, the exhibition boasted 120 trade stands. As well as being a social occasion, competitors were also chasing the title of Supreme Champion. Ian Evans, general manager of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association and organiser of the event, said the show had been a great success and regulars were already booking their hotels for next year. “I can’t see it ever moving from Blackpool,” he said.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by johnnymarin | Feb 23, 2018 | Pigeon Patrol's Services
For more than 150 years blue plaques have celebrated notable people and the buildings in which they lived.
But now a pigeon that delivered secret messages during the Second World War has become the first animal to be given the honour.
Mary, a carrier pigeon, was hit by shrapnel, wounded by pellets and attacked by German war hawks as she flew over the Pas De Calais.
Her loft in Exeter, Devon, was also bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1942 resulting in the deaths of many feathered comrades.
She lived with her owner, pigeon breeder Cecil ‘Charlie’ Brewer, and the property in Exeter’s West Street had its plaque unveiled at the weekend.
He had been made a special constable in 1941 with responsibility for general control of war pigeons.
Mr Brewer used his skills as a bootmaker to stitch up her wounds and also made Mary a small leather neck support to ease her injuries.
She lived with her owner, pigeon breeder Cecil ‘Charlie’ Brewer (right) and she died in 1950 and is buried with other animal heroes in the PDSA Pet Cemetery in Ilford, Essex
At the end of the war she was awarded the Dickin Medal for distinguished gallantry, the highest animal award for bravery.
She died in 1950 and is buried with other animal heroes in the PDSA Pet Cemetery in Ilford, Essex.
John Monks, of the Exeter Civic Society, said: ‘It’s a remarkable story of dedication to duty worthy of a blue plaque. But it is also a record of the roles humans required animals to play in bad times.’
Mr Brewer died in 1985, aged 90, having raised money for charity by giving talks on his beloved bird.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by johnnymarin | Feb 21, 2018 | Pigeon Patrol's Services
Jalandhar, January21
The Sher-E-Punjab Maharaj Ranjit Singh Club and the breed Show Club organised the 54th annual pigeon breed show in the city today.The show was open to all pigeon owners. Around 100 pigeon owners from different places took part in the annual breed show.It was held in the morning at Govindgarh colony and MLA Ranjit Singh Beri was invited as the chief guest on the occasion. DIG Olympic hockey player Davinder Singh accompanied him.Jagdish Raj from Ladowali got the first prize by presenting his five fancy pigeons of different breeds, while Jaspreet Kaur from Chandigarh and Ullas from Kolkata bagged the second prize.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
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by johnnymarin | Feb 17, 2018 | Pigeon Patrol's Services
North Korea has released posters that promote inter-Korean cooperation, in the lead-up to its participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
Pyongyang’s move comes amid speculations that it is reaching out to Seoul to dampen the growing alliance between the latter and Washington.
North Korean posters are notorious for their militaristic and anti-American messages, but the ones released by North Korea’s Uriminzokkiri propaganda website last week stressed cross-border relations, and specifically reconciliation, solidarity, self-reliance and unification.
One of the posters depicts a “unified Korea” flag that shows an undivided Korean Peninsula on the one hand and a group of people carrying the flags walking side by side on the other.
The poster states, “Let us actively form an atmosphere aimed at reconciliation and unification,” and has slogans commonly used by the North in its strategy for the South, such as “uriminzokkiri,” meaning “on our own as a nation, “solidarity of the people,” “self-reliant unification” and “self-reliance of the people.”
A different poster that shows people looking up to a brightly shining Peninsula, states, “Improvement on the North-South relations in 2018” and “Let us light up this meaningful year and leave a noteworthy record of achievements!”
A third poster portrays a boy and a girl dressed in traditional Korean clothing releasing pigeons into the sky, as the pigeons fly in a formation in the shape of the Peninsula.
It shows a black missile that states, “U.S. rehearsal for invasion of the North,” being shattered into pieces. The poster also states, “Let’s ease military tension between the North and the South and prepare a peaceful environment on the Peninsula first!”
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by johnnymarin | Feb 16, 2018 | Pigeon Patrol's Services
It’s been a good week for … birds
An ambulance service for pigeons has been launched in Aberdeen. Kevin Newell and Flo Blackbourn run Wiggy & Friends Animal Rescue and are on a mission to help the city’s injured doos.
They are asking people to help them map the city’s colonies so their Pigeon Patrol can check up on the birds’ welfare.
“We’ve created a rapid response first aid kit for pigeons,” explains Newell. “If a pigeon is ill we’ll catch it and treat it.”
Newell, who has his own business Humane Wildlife Solutions, and Blackburn, a zoology student, run the rescue service from their home in Old Aberdeen. The centre is named after Wiggy the pigeon, who the couple treated when he had an injured wing.
“A lot of people absolutely hate pigeons but once you get to know them they’re all little people with their own characters and traits,” says Newell. “We play pigeon noises to them so they feel like they have contact with other pigeons and not just us.”
Very Dr Doo-little.
It’s been a bad week for … plants
Flat-sharing can be fraught with difficulties. The divvy-up of bills, the sharing of the limited hot water, the impromptu parties. And there’s always that nagging question: who nicked my last bit of cheese?
But rare plants don’t usually come into the equation – but they did for Lancashire ecology student Joshua Styles, who woke up to discover that his flatmate had vomited on his collection of rare plants and seeds gathered from more than 40 rare species.
And instead of a drunken student accident, Styles, 22, appears to think the vandalism was an act of retaliation. “My flatmate came in drunk at 3.30 in the morning with five girls making loads of noise. I’d had a bit of conflict with him already over not paying the bills, including the internet, so this time I cut off access to it.
“The next morning I woke up to find he had vomited over the plants I’ve collected for a project I set up in order to save them from regional extinction and poured bleach over them. I can’t tell you how upsetting it’s been. Those plants meant everything to me.”
But his faith in humanity has perhaps now been restored. Since writing on social media about his plants’ plight, supporters have launched a crowdfunding page to help raise £5,000 to repair the damage.
It seems there are seeds of hope after all.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
