by Pigeon Patrol | Mar 2, 2016 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting
A PLYMOUTH man says his day was ruined when an army of more than 100 seagulls and pigeons suddenly swarmed on his car and started pooing all over it.
Arnold Barnes said he was enjoying a visit to Devils Point with his wife when the incident happened.
Mr Barnes, from Crownhill, blames two women who brought carrier bags full of food to feed the hungry birds.
He said “at least 100 seagulls and pigeons” immediately flocked to the shoreline and pooed on cars so badly that some motorists sped off to avoid them.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 25, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services
A crackdown on cats suggested by some Dunedin city councillors could be scratched due to legal concerns.
The prospect was raised at yesterday’s planning and environment committee as councillors debated two new draft bylaws designed to update rules for controlling dogs and other animals in Dunedin.
The two documents – one covering dog control, and the second other animals and birds – were to be released for public consultation once endorsed by councillors.
Complainants as vexatious as dogs?
But Cr Kate Wilson took exception to their contents yesterday, questioning why the documents sent a ”really clear message” about controlling dogs while overlooking cats.
Cats were the only animals allowed to roam beyond their owner’s property boundary, without rules set by council for controlling them, she said.
That was despite views previously expressed by groups like Save the Otago Peninsula (Stop) about the need to control domestic cats, perhaps even by neutering them, she said.
”I believe there’s a willingness in public to test that, or at least have that discussion,” she said.
She questioned why draft rules covered protecting wildlife from dogs, but not cats.
Council animal control team leader Ros MacGill told yesterday’s meeting she would need legal advice on any move to apply such rules to cats in future.
But despite that, consultation material to be released to the public included three options to manage cat problems.
The options ranged from no change to introducing new restrictions, including a requirement that cats be neutered, kept indoors at night or even banned in some areas.
However, council staff proposed only to limit cat numbers in cases where there were problems and voluntary action failed.
Cr MacTavish said two of the options appeared ”fairly limited”, while the third was ”fairly restrictive”.
She wondered if the council had considered registering and microchipping cats, as was already required for non-working dogs, instead.
Ms MacGill said she would also have to seek legal advice on that idea, as it was her understanding such rules had to be set nationally.
Council staff indicated legal advice could be considered during the consultation process, but Cr Wilson said she would not vote to begin that process until legal issues were considered.
Mayor Dave Cull also worried about releasing documents without first understanding their legal implications.
”It may be delayed . . . but one of the lessons we have had in other areas is, get it right the first time,” he said.
Councillors voted to leave action on the draft bylaws until legal advice was considered.
The draft bylaws also sought to update a host of other rules, including relaxing one to allow dogs on leads to be walked at the St Clair Esplanade, Ms MacGill said.
The rules would also address other key issues, including ongoing problems with dog fouling on sports fields and dog attacks on wildlife, plus improving access to dog-exercising areas, she said.
The proposals were not yet set in stone, and public consultation would guide the final shape of the bylaws, she said.
”It’s not a decision we have made. We want to make that very clear.”
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 23, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services
(October 6, 2015 – Toronto, ON) Ingrid Veninger is one of our favourite filmmakers. Publisher Ralph Lucas first met her for the Toronto screening of The Limb Salesman at the Canadian Film Festival in 2004. Since then Northernstars has interviewed her twice, most recently in 2013 when the film she wrote, produced and directed, The Animal Project, opened in general distribution. It is strange to use the word general, which makes things sound sort of normal, when reporting on such a talented and unique filmmaker.
In a small group that includes Winnipeg’s Guy Madden, Veninger doesn’t so much make movies as she constructs them, builds them from initial idea to a finished project that has been crafted with abundant care, remarkable problem solving abilities and a swift spirit that adapts undaunted to the challenges involved in getting a film made. And when it is done, she finds a way to make it even better.
Such is the case for He Hated Pigeons. It’s her 5th feature film and it will enjoy a very special one-time only showing at Toronto’s Bloor Hot Docs Cinema on October 18 at 3 in the afternoon. He Hated Pigeons is a deliberately low-budget film, this time a remarkably well-measured tale of love and loss. It stars Pedro Fontaine (pictured) who met the director when he served as a translator when Veninger was attending a film festival in Santiago, Chile in 2014. When the job was done, Fontaine mentioned that more than a translator he was also an actor and it would be nice to work together. Sometime later Ingrid Veninger contacted Fontaine to say that she wanted to write a role just for him.
As Veninger tells it, “This project has been the most intense. Not because I booked the crew’s flights to Chile before there was a script, or because I planned to primarily shoot in a language (Spanish) that I don’t speak and in a foreign country, or because I wrote the lead role for an actor whose work I has never seen… but because every step of the process had to allow for the added uncertainty of a live-score.”
That’s right. The movie has been made without a music track. As we have written here before, while the words in a movie may tell you what to think, it’s the music that tells you what to feel. Veninger continues: “The idea different musicians, in each city, improvising their own music was a commitment that influenced and informed every choice in making this film from writing and shooting, through editing and sound design. There was no way the live-score could be a gimmick, it needed to be intrinsically woven into the fabric of the film so that it became essential.”
The key word in here in case you missed it is “improvising.” There is no written score for the live musicians to follow. This isn’t a rehearsal piece. I any other filmmaker’s hands this might be ascribed as throwing caution to the wind. But for Ingrid Veninger this is just part of the process of making her highly individual films.
“He Hated Pigeons deals with letting go. Life is uncertain. Filmmaking is uncertain. And, I want the audience to feel something which has its own intrinsic impermanence. So every public presentation will be a one-time-only event.”
For the October 18 screening in Toronto the improvisation will be provided by Ohad Benchetrit and Justin Small. The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema is located at 506 Bloor Street West and the rice of admission is “pay what you can.” Which is quite a bargain when you’ll be experiencing something that is, quite possibly, priceless.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 21, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services
Chinese authorities placed live rabbits, pigeons and chickens near the Tianjin blast site in an effort to calm the public who were worried about the presence of poisonous chemicals in the area. The animals and bird were alive for more than two hours, Reuters reported.
Images of rabbits, pigeons and chickens in brightly-coloured cages are being shared among Chinese citizens as part of the government propaganda to dispel fear of contamination in the region.
Since the massive explosion at the warehouse owned by Ruihai International on 12 August, there has been much concern, especially after it was found that deadly cyanide had leaked into underwater drains. Cyanide was also found in the air.
Also Read: Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Ashore Tianjin Lake Days After Warehouse Blasts
Amid rising fear, another development on Thursday further spread panic among Tianjin residents. Thousands of dead fish washed ashore from a lake located six kilometres from the explosion site.
However, local officials, who are still investigating the “mysterious death of the fish in the Tianjin lake”, claimed that it had nothing to do with the explosion.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 19, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes
Hygiene concerns have prompted the Parkes Shire to expand its pigeon control program.
The Council says the birds have moved from an old open cut gold mine near Peak Hill, into the town centre.
The spokesman Stephen Campbell says it is a health concern and many of the eradication strategies previously available are no longer approved.
He said the council would now focus on how many pigeons were at the old water treatment facility.
“It’s just hygiene and maintenance, I guess,” Mr Campbell said.
“They block gutters and other problems but it’s common to a lot of areas and the measures of actually treating the problem are limited, nearly limited to trapping, so it’s a painstaking exercise.”
Mr Campbell said trapping programs would continue.
“We’d be all looking for an easy answer to this problem because I think a lot of towns are suffering from pigeons.
“Out at Peak Hill the re-working of the old mine diggings, I guess, stirred up the pigeons that were roosting there and they’ve sort of moved into town, so over the last few years we’ve been working with a company to try and reduce the problem.”
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 17, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting
EAST…
PEREGRINE STORY…
MONDAY 16th NOVEMBER 2015
Pictured is Claire Jenkins who received a littering fine for feeding birds in Swansea city center.
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — The Alberta Energy Regulator says it is investigating reports that approximately 30 blue herons have died at an oilsands site.
A news release from the regulator says it has sent staff to the Syncrude Canada Mildred Lake mine site, north of Fort McMurray, to assess the situation.
The cause of the deaths is still under investigation.
Will Gibson, a spokesman for Syncrude Canada, said the company is co-operating with the energy regulator as well as with provincial fish and wildlife officials and Environment Canada.
“We’re investigating this incident to determine what happened,” Gibson said Saturday.
The energy regulator’s incident report web page says Syncrude notified it that the birds were discovered at an “abandoned sump pond” on Friday.
The birds were found near a pump house, but Gibson wasn’t able to say what the pond contained, or whether the birds were coated in oil.
He said 29 birds were found dead. One additional bird was euthanized on the order of Alberta Fish and Wildlife.
Gibson said the bird deterrent system at the facility was fully operational at the time.
The regulator said that wildlife deterrent programs, including those at the Mildred Lake, are inspected regularly to make sure they’re working following previous bird deaths at oilsands facilities.
More than 1,600 ducks died after they landed on a toxic Syncrude tailings pond in northern Alberta in 2008, and the company was fined $3 million.
Two years later, more than 550 birds had to be destroyed when an early winter storm forced them to land on waste ponds belonging to Syncrude and Suncor.
Gibson said the deterrent system uses radar to detect birds. It then activates propane-fired noisemakers as well as mechanical falcons to scare the birds away.
There’s also human staff that will respond if birds are observed in areas of open water, Gibson said.
“We’ve worked at continuously improving our deterrent system,” Gibson said.
According to the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s “Hinterland Who’s Who” website, the overall great blue heron population is healthy and scientists estimate there are tens of thousands of them in Canada.
It says the birds stand over a metre tall with their heads outstretched. Both female and male birds incubate the eggs and feed the young.
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