by Pigeon Patrol | Aug 11, 2015 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes, UltraSonic Bird Control
WENATCHEE — The BB gun that triggered a lockdown Friday of Confluence Health’s Wenatchee Valley Medical Center was set to be used for the first time to scare pigeons off the roof, Wenatchee Police Chief Tom Robbins said Wednesday.
Officers from local law enforcement agencies locked down the busy center around 4:30 p.m. Friday after a witness reported seeing a man with a rifle butt extending from under his coat. The incident ended after 90 minutes with no injuries or arrests.
Robbins said the BB gun was brought to the medical center by an employee of the facility’s maintenance department. Scaring away pigeons is not his primary job, said the chief, but pigeons had become a maintenance issue on the roof.
“It’s my understanding that they had not used the BB gun before, but thought it might be a way to scare the pigeons away from the area,” said Robbins.
The BB gun was carried by the employee to the medical center’s maintenance shop but had not yet been used, said Robbins. When the employee was eventually contacted, he was not on-site and had left the facility. A maintenance worker said the state Department of Fish and Wildlife had indicated the BB gun would be an acceptable way to deal with the pigeon problem, Robbins added.
A law officer and maintenance staffer located the BB gun and brought it to the incident command team for verification.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Aug 10, 2015 | Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes, Pigeons in the News
CRANSTON, R.I. –
A man faces charges after Cranston police said Wednesday he hit a 9-year-old girl in the back with an arrow while trying to hit pigeons.
Daniel King, 27, was charged with criminal negligence, a felony. He was arraigned at Kent County District Court and is being held as a probation violator at the Adult Correctional Institutions.
Lt. Matthew Moynihan of the Cranston Police Department said the incident happened at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Moynihan said the girl was walking her dog near Bain Street when she was struck in the back with an arrow. Police said the arrow ricocheted off the ground and hit her.
Moynihan said the victim removed the arrow herself, but was taken to Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
Moynihan said it was a regular bow-and-arrow hunters use, and that King was using it carelessly.
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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.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Aug 9, 2015 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes, Pigeons in the News
Feral pigeons beware: robotic peregrine falcons and bald eagles could soon be patrolling the skies near you.
Remote-controlled birds of prey that scare flocks of smaller birds from airport landing strips, farms and anywhere else they are a nuisance are being tested in the Netherlands.
Birds of prey have long been used to control bird populations. The instinct of smaller birds is to flee an area that they believe to be the hunting ground of a bird of prey. The method is believed to be more effective than others such as spikes an
d gunshots, but hiring the birds
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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.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Aug 8, 2015 | Bird Netting
LEBANON, Ore. (KOIN 6) — It took 45 people to knock down a fire at a rural Lebanon property that spread from a chicken coop to a nearby shop.
The fire, at 40487 Snow Peak Dr., took the lives of one chicken, and 15-20 doves and pigeons.
Luckily, someone walking by spotted the fire and alerted the property owners, and no people were hurt.
Crews used a strike team brought in water tankers and a
total of 18 vehicles from Albany Fire, Scio-Crabtree Fire, Brownsville Fire, Sweet Home Fire, and the Oregon Department of Forestry.
Crews brought the two-alarm fire under control at roughly 7:00 a.m. Damage to the neighboring shop is estimated at $70,000, while the loss of the chicken coop is valued at $1,500.
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 Pigeon Patrol | Aug 7, 2015 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes
It is so wonderful to see some progress taking place in downtown North Battleford with it coming back to life with all the numerous renovations going on. Far too many business places have been closed for so long. It was sad to see compared to other provincial cities and little towns.
But, will it take care of the over population of pigeons? They do create a real problem in the whole downtown area. Years ago they got started at the grain elevators, now the elevators are located outside the city, but not the pigeons. Those flat roof buildings must be in a real mess of pigeon droppings, feathers, nests and the odd dead pigeon. The rains come and wash all the filth down on the public streets.
Pigeons can be carriers of all sorts of dangerous germs, which the public and business people are exposed to. It would be nice to see a clean-up done before the new businesses start to operate.
When pigeons become a nuisance on the farmer’s vacant buildings, the farmers do not go for all that messy clean up. They quickly do away with the pigeons completely. Any more moving in will get the same treatment.
Another blight on the city’s landscape is the gopher over population. They seem to be all over any vacant grassy area in the city. Those unsightly holes and mounds of soil dug up on the lush green grass kill the beauty.
North Battleford is a good home city to all, once it is cleaned up.
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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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