by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 31, 2016 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Bird Deterrent Products, Pigeon Patrol's Services
To prevent diseases caused due to pigeons, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been contemplating controlling their population with the help of contraceptives called Ovistop.
There are kabutarkhanas at various places across the city, where people feed jawar, millet, and gram to pigeons. There are several complaints of people getting diseases like asthma and TB due to the droppings and feathers of the birds.
According to the civic officials, one pair of birds can produce 48 pigeons a year, which has led to overpopulation of the species in the city.
Shiv Sena corporator Abhishek Ghosalkar had proposed that the BMC should put the pigeons on birth control with the help of Ovistop. According to this method, each pigeon is fed Ovistop, a product made of corn seeds covered in Nicarbazin, which acts as a contraceptive for birds. The pill is touted as being highly effective.
In a reply given to him, the civic administration has said that the matter does not come under the jurisdiction of the BMC’s health department and belongs to the director, food and drugs administration (FDA) of the state government. “However, we have asked the FDA about implementing this method of providing food mixed with Ovistop to pigeons in the city,” said a civic official.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 30, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeons in the News
A lonely woman who ignored a council order to stop feeding the pigeons in her garden must pay a £640 fine and £1,729 court costs.
Katherine Spiller, 66, said the birds were “a bit of company”, but attracted so many that neighbours complained.
Spiller, from Oxford, admitted breaking a community protection order.
The lonely woman fed pigeons in her garden for 20 years so that they could keep her company.
Pensioner Katherine Spiller began inviting the birds into her garden in 1995 by throwing seed from her bathroom window.
The 66-year-old attracted large flocks of pigeons – which are recognised as a pest in the UK – as well as smaller garden birds to keep her company.
However, over the past two decades the former librarian and administrator has amassed complaints from fed-up neighbours who can’t stand the birds which defecate on their property and dominate the garden walls like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Spiller has also caused a flap among shoppers in Oxford city centre where she has also been spreading the seed.
As a result, dozens of pigeons would descend daily onto the street near picturesque and historic Magdalen College as well as other locations across the city.
Following a growing number of complaints, Oxford City Council stepped in 12 months ago and ordered her to stop.
Despite this, the “habitual bird feeder” was put before magistrates again after ignoring the order between August and October last year.
Magistrates in Oxford were shown dozens of pictures of the birds sitting on the roof and ledges of Spiller’s terraced house as well as sitting on her neighbours buildings.
Jeremy Franklin, representing Oxford City Council, told magistrates that neighbours had reported her continuing to put out bird seed.
Mr Franklin added: “The defendant is an habitual feeder of birds, mostly pigeons, which congregate around her house in large numbers, causing a certain amount of distress and antagonism to the neighbours.
“The warning notice required the defendant to cease dropping bird seed or foodstuffs that would encourage birds, vermin or other animals in her garden or anywhere and to keep her garden free from weeds and plants providing shelter to vermin and other animals.
“Despite the imposition of the notice, the defendant was found to have breached it by continuing to feed the pigeons.”
Mr Franklin said the city council might have to take further action to stop Spiller from feeding the pigeons unless she could change her habits.
He added: “Those charged with dealing with this problem are at their wits end.”
A spokesman for Oxford City Council said after the hearing that neighbours were unable to use their gardens in the summer months because of the birds perching and defecating in the gardens. He added that a nuisance was being caused by bird flying into windows.
Spiller had sent a letter to the court, admitting she had failed to comply with a community protection notice and the court clerk revealed it was “very, very rambling” and mainly consisted of “poems that have been written by Ms Spiller”.
The panel of magistrates handed Spiller, who did not attend the hearing, a fine of £640 for breaching the community protection order handed out in February last year. She was also ordered to pay a £64 victim surcharge and £1,729 prosecution costs.
Speaking from her home, the keen poet said: “The birds like being fed but now you can’t feed them in town. You can’t even feed the ducks.
“There was not the same law in place at the time when I first began feeding them in 1995. I think it is a wicked law and it makes it hard on the pigeons.
“They could be an amenity for people who lack a bit of company. I don’t have a partner or children so the pigeons were my only company, and people do look for company in the pigeons.”
Spiller, who wrote a poem in 1997 entitled Pigeon Woman which reflects on her own experiences of feeding the birds, added that she would remain hopeful for the future that the law on feeding the pigeons would change.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 29, 2016 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Bird Netting, UltraSonic Bird Control
FEATHERS have been ruffled after peregrine falcons were encouraged to nest at Beverley Minster.
Garden bird lovers and pigeon fanciers have criticised the church for allowing the RSPB to install a bird box on top of the minster.
The box was installed this month after a pair of peregrines were spotted in residence at the minster.
But Beverley resident Annie Cox, 69, who lives near Beverley Minster, claimed the falcons are preying on song birds.
She said: “When we moved to Minster View we were delighted to wake to the dawn chorus.
“It was wonderful until summer, when falcons were introduced to control feral pigeons around the minster, we had blackbirds raising their young and variety of small birds – even the endangered sparrow.
“I’m disabled with severe osteoarthritis and had great pleasure watching birds at the feeder in the front garden. Now there are no birds to eat the seed.”
Mrs Cox said she has put up net curtains so she cannot see piles of feathers in the garden.
She said: “All that is left are piles of feathers and one pair of blackbirds and wood pigeons in our garden.”
Mrs Cox said she was distressed when she found out peregrine falcons were being encouraged to nest at the minster.
She said: “Falcons and other raptors have no place in towns and should be returned to their natural environment in the countryside where they can live on rabbits and rodents rather than decimating the small bird population, which is already at risk.”
Local pigeon fanciers are also upset about the peregrine falcons preying on other birds.
John Baker, who keeps racing pigeons, said: “It is very nice to see peregrine falcons flying, but they eat pigeons and song birds.
“They pluck them alive and pull them apart.
“Churches are not their normal habitat and I personally think the vicar is out of order letting this happen. Is he not supposed to love all creatures?”
Minster Vicar Reverend Jeremy Fletcher said: “I am not an expert, but I think sparrowhawks have much more impact on garden birds.
“The peregrines adopted the minster towers last year as a place to roost and hunt from. They came of their own accord.
“It appears peregrines are protected so if you have them you can’t do anything about that, you are required by law not to affect them.
“One of the reasons it is good for us is having peregrines at the building scares off feral pigeons, which cause damage to the stonework.”
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 28, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeons in the News
FEEDING the birds costs “tuppence a bag” in the classic film Mary Poppins, but one woman has been fined £640 for putting out food for the pigeons.
Katherine Spiller was handed a community protection notice by Oxford City Council in February last year after neighbours complained about the large numbers of pigeons congregating around her home.
But the “habitual bird feeder” failed to abide by the notice and continued to put seed out in her garden in Temple Street, east Oxford, a court heard.
Magistrates were shown pictures of dozens of pigeons perched on the roof and window ledges of the terraced house, and even sitting on neighbouring buildings.
Jeremy Franklin, representing Oxford City Council, said 66-year-old Spiller flouted the notice eight times between August and October last year.
He told Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Monday how neighbours reported Spiller to the council for continuing to put out bird seed.
Mr Franklin added: “The defendant is an habitual feeder of birds, mostly pigeons, which congregate around her house in large numbers, causing a certain amount of distress and antagonism to the neighbours.
“The warning notice required the defendant to cease dropping bird seed or foodstuffs that would encourage birds, vermin or other animals in her garden or anywhere and to keep her garden free from weeds and plants providing shelter to vermin and other animals.
“Despite the imposition of the notice, the defendant was found to have breached it by continuing to feed the pigeons.”
Mr Franklin said the city council might have to take further action to stop Spiller from feeding the pigeons unless she could change her habits.
He added: “Those charged with dealing with this problem are at their wits end.”
The court heard Spiller had sent a letter to the court, admitting she had failed to comply with a community protection notice.
But the court clerk said the letter was “very, very rambling” and mainly consisted of “poems that have been written by Ms Spiller”.
The panel of magistrates handed Spiller – who did not attend the hearing – a fine of £640 for breaching the order.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 27, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes
Police arrested a Gonzales man accused of attempted strong-arm robbery after a foot chase Monday in a residential neighborhood near Sunnyslope Road.
Police arrested Elliot Turpin, 25, on suspicion of residential burglary and attempted strong-arm robbery after a foot chase and neighborhood search, according to a statement from Hollister police.
According to the statement:
On the morning of February 22, 2015, officers responded to two separate theft-related calls in the 1400 block of Sunnyslope Rd. and Diablo Rd. One of those incidents was an attempted strong-arm robbery. Officers conducted investigations and were following up on leads in those cases.
At 11:00 am officers were called to a nearby neighborhood in the 1600 block of Bodega Ct. Officers responded to a report of an interrupted residential burglary. Officers descended on the area and located a suspect, later identified as Elliot Turpin, jumping fences away from the victim’s house towards neighboring residences. Officers purusued Turpin on foot over fences and through backyards. Respondin officers, with the assistance of deputies from the San Benito County Sheriff’s Office, surrounded the neighborhood and began conducting a yard-to-yard search for Turpin. Turpin continued trying to evade officers by jumping between backyards, but he was soon cornered and arrested without further incident.
Officers were able to link Turpin to the theft related incidents earlier in the day, along with fresh residential burglaries. Turpin is on probation in Monterey County for a prior burglary conviction.
Turpin was booked at the San Benito County Jail on charges of burglary, attempted robbery, possession of stolen property, resisting arrest, and probation violations.
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