Posted on 02/03/2023 4:22:39 PM PST by Albion Wilde
On any given day, hundreds of birds gather at Baltimore County’s landfill in White Marsh, an unincorporated community just west of aptly named Bird River which drains...eventually the Chesapeake Bay. These massive flocks of birds... are doing what birds do: pooping and eating, then dropping landfill trash in nearby neighborhoods.
And that’s not a fun reality for residents, good for environmental water quality, or the sanity of neighbors. So Baltimore County officials are considering hiring some aerial muscle to frighten away the nuisance birds.
Early last year, Dan Vitilio, who lives in nearby Kingsville, made a trip to the landfill to dump some trash and saw hundreds of birds, gorging and dropping their calling cards.
“A lot of cars go over there,” said Vitilio, who has been a master falconer for more than 40 years. “Homeowners drop their trash off and they have to go to the car wash after because that’s how bad the birds are just messing everywhere.”
While at the landfill, Vitilio made county officials an offer....
(Excerpt) Read more at wypr.org ...
“He came out and I think he was dumping one day at the landfill and he was like ‘there are birds everywhere and I know that my hawk could help with this,” said Nick Rodricks, the chief of the county’s solid waste management bureau. “So at the time we’re like, yeah definitely if you want to come show us how it works that would be really neat.”...[more at link]
Ping!
By not capitalizing the D in "dodge", I suspect they author has no idea of the origin of that classic expression ... or maybe they -- and the editor -- were just in a hurry.
Check out the hawk’s ultra serious resting bird face in post 4.
That’s one serious birdie!
Turn a bunch of rednecks loose with pellet rifles and cull them down. If you just run them off they will not have as rich a food source and will starve. Better to have the dead birds already in the land fill than competing with other birds who don’t depend on the dump.
I’ll bet a couple of hawk shaped drones circling the dump would work.
What’s amazing is the the communist county exec Johnny O actually approved a smart decision
Many moons ago i auditioned my border collie to chase the geese from the local river park. My dog didn’t get the job but another from a retired man did and he sat all day in the park while his dog chased away the geese. And of course the environazis complained so the city stopped it. Then the wildlife dept fed the geese food laced with birth control that rendered the eggs infertile. And of course the environazis complained so wildlife stopped. And now. The park is a goose infested wasteland no one visits because their is goose crap covering every square inch of the park and the geese are jerks.
This is not unusual. Frisco had a problem some decades back with flying rats (pigeons) pooping all over the place. So, they got some peregrine falcons to move into the city.
Rats moved outta town right fast — those that were not eaten.
It was really interesting to work in a high rise with a view of a falcon nest. MomDad would drop like stones into the street, and come back up with a bloody wad of feathers.
Natural predators don’t take long to drive the rats out.
Too bad our inner, crime-ridden cities (all blue) don’t have natural predators. Oh, wait, they do; the MomDad of the neighborhoods. Too bad it is in the interest of the commie trash in charge to keep them unarmed.
We have a hawk that circulates thru the yards in our neighborhood. I don’t know that it scares off the other critters...haven’t paid any attention to that aspect. But I do know I watch in awe as it floats overhead, or lands on a tree limb in the backyard, or dives to the ground to catch something. Beautiful bird.
When we went to Mexico the place we stayed at had hawks they used to get rid of the black birds that tried to get free meals from the open air buffets.
A bird must have crapped on his Lexus.
“The End.”
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