Such irony https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/30...m-pooing-birds
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Irony is right ! What the heck happenned to shooting and bird nets methods?
Unreal !
Haha, they've definitely been shooting, trapping, and poisoning the birds here. There are millions of them. Literally blackened the sky on dusk and dawn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woody
What about fine bird nets as orchatds use?
Don't worry its only bird shit.....
Bat shit on the other hand......
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Sounds like another f-up in the making
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Fine bird nets spread over the roosting areas will tangle their feet.
Only introducing males may work. A single female becoming pregnant would be disastrous...Quote:
Originally Posted by muzza
They could always use explosives...
https://youtu.be/5GNqRXtUbfg
And ironically, there's a note there about motorist killing Keas on the road? What a screwed up lot?
NZ Falcon comes to mind...... and isnt our forests supposed to be in decline because there isnt ENOUGH bird pooh being deposited anymore????
I bet the people who made concerted effort to remove rats in first place are pulling out what hair is left on heads...
they want birds to stop roosting.so shoot them in the roosts..works a treat for pigeons and magpies.....
so the ecoli issues are NOW considered too high but will be more in line with pre-colinisation levels??? possibly..... there has been major effort to preserve streams running through dairy land in that area for quite a few years now,and my memories of them in the 80s says the ywere pretty good then too. well the ones around puketurua surely were.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
Easy fix cut the trees down!:XD:
Back in the day they would just get a few good men with some guns. Every night for a week and then again 10 days later. Problem moved!
But no......DOC are here to reintroduce a pest:wtfsmilie: which I thought was not keeping with the law.....I mean its worked in the past eh....now lets let some stoats out to sort them rats:sick::o:wtfsmilie:
1 last thing "Are you not ment to be going preditor free"???
Easy, just put some Aussie snakes in to get the rats. What could go wrong?
a coupla things come to mind.........
history repeating introduce one pest to rid us of another then repeat then repeat
i have a sparrow and starling problem here too ..... is it cos i dont have rats cos the dogs and cats ahave seen them off but are too lazy to climb trees?.......
can the youth of today blame climate change and point the fickle finger at farmers and ute drivers ?
or perhaps the team that successfully rid the area of rats could go in with shovels and scoop up the poo and kindly ask the offending birds to kindly move on (to wellington central where most shit is piled high)
we couldnt release one gender of rat as under this administration it would be discriminatory to the other 26 genders of rat.....genetically modified rats? cool mutant rats running around what next mutant turtles ?
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...
I would have thought that Falcons, Little Owls and Morepork, would be better than rats, or as suggested, some blokes with bird shot and an ongoing campaign.
I could fix this in two nights. Orchard type frost protection 'smudge pots' the old oil burning type placed under the trees. Dark still night, light them and add flowers of sulphur. All the birds will be knocked out on the ground or gone in the morning. Sulphur fumes knocks them out, we used it to catch birds as kids
"Denyer said it hasn’t been possible to guesstimate the actual effects on native wildlife of introducing rats"
Really. Why have a Predator Free Plan and a fenced off exclusion zone at all then... I really have no time for these bureaucratic types who go about making shit up to justify their latest brain fart.
Only after swallowing a horse apparently
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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
so if they want birds to stay away and not roost in an area.... nah that just seems dumb full stop... I know Timaru council put strips of the blue plastic strapping on lins above the open water pools for town supply to keep birds off..but birds n trees just go together.... there has to be a clever solution somehow....
I think this is as funny as fuck! have said it before and will say it again - hoomans trying to play at being God! Oh what a cluster its gonna be, just leave the place alone and time will sort it all out.
had discussion with elder female relative by marriage....she had parked broomstick in corner so was home when we called in for cuppa..
she was moaning that they have clorinated the water here in Geraldine...I asked where her water tank was??? you have a clean garden shed roof,why arent yo ucollecting drinking water from it? I asked....cant trust water off a roof ..she replied...easy to fix that I said,just chuck in a cap of janola.......... oh how I HAD TO CONTAIN MY CHUCKLES OF MIRTH...
personally I would rather have taste of chlorine than another dose of the poohs n spews
grew up in Tokoroa with the smell of chlorine etc from the mill...
drank Taumarunui water in my teens and actually LIKED IT......
folks dont appreciate that good water= stuff you can drink when you have been parched and drunk out of muddy puddle on side of tramping track,or stomped hole in a bog and waited for it to fill enough to get some semi less muddy liquid to drink...yeah a little bit of chlorine smell isnt so bad....
fussy fussy fussy.
$54 from either warehouse or mitre 10 will get you a filter jug and 2 spare filters,that should help Mr Fussy LOL.
i have just lost what little faith I still had our "conservation" department. what a bunch of absolute fucking morons.
I have never heard of anyone actually liking the taste of chlorine thats wildQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Ill take my chances on a cattle trough or many a river that I inevitably find something dead in upstream
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