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San Francisco metro system hires bird of prey to scare pigeons away
Reuters ^ | 08/11/2022 | Reuters

Posted on 08/12/2022 3:33:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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Does the hawk chase away the homeless outside the stations taking a dump also?🙄
1 posted on 08/12/2022 3:33:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Sounds like another attack on the homeless. Nothing wrong with street squab.


2 posted on 08/12/2022 3:34:41 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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We go to Avalon on Catalina Island. Descanso beach is a private beach a hundred yards down the coast. They use a falconer to get rid of the sea gulls.

Very effective.

3 posted on 08/12/2022 3:36:41 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility.)
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Everyone knows that you need an Owl to do that for you! ;-)


4 posted on 08/12/2022 3:37:03 PM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY


5 posted on 08/12/2022 3:37:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just place pictures of the Hillabeast everywhere. No sentient life form will come near.


6 posted on 08/12/2022 3:40:30 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ChicagoConservative27
We hired dogs here to chase the geese away from a retention pond in a wealthy neighborhood.

Us poor folks got a kick out of it...poop all over the place and dogs barking. Sounds like all are having a good time. LOL

7 posted on 08/12/2022 3:40:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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Too bad Hawks don’t swoop down on those dastardly Canadian Geese. Gardeners beware of the Geese Release!


8 posted on 08/12/2022 3:42:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How long before the illegal Mexican Eagles start coming across the border and taking jobs away from American Birds of Prey?


9 posted on 08/12/2022 3:51:22 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; Trillian

Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

10 posted on 08/12/2022 3:52:46 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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I don’t mind pigeons, it’s the grackles that are a plague in my area.


11 posted on 08/12/2022 3:54:15 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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What would one call a pterodactyl handler?


12 posted on 08/12/2022 3:57:28 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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**What would one call a pterodactyl handler?**

big bat man?


13 posted on 08/12/2022 4:01:27 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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Those dirty bas...uh, birds are actually federally protected...

High concentrate orange oil from a good spray rig will kill them.


14 posted on 08/12/2022 4:02:02 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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We hired dogs here to chase the geese away from a retention pond in a wealthy neighborhood.

Border collies are good moving seals off docks too

15 posted on 08/12/2022 4:12:06 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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Harris’ hawk of Southern Arizona:

https://www.desertmuseum.org/visit/rff_harris.php


16 posted on 08/12/2022 4:13:10 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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LOL...my first thought, too. Can you imagine peregrine falcons diving on the bums at 160 mph! That would clear up the bum and druggie population population in no time at all.


17 posted on 08/12/2022 4:27:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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Shiva, by Robinson Jeffers

There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky,
She killed the pigeons of peace and security,
She has taken honesty and confidence from nations and men,
She is hunting the lonely heron of liberty.
She loads the arts with nonsense, she is very cunning
Science with dreams and the state with powers to catch them at last.
Nothing will escape her at last, flying nor running.
This is the hawk that picks out the star’s eyes.
This is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan;
The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things.
Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme,
Empty darkness under the death-tent wings.
She will build a nest of the swan’s bones and hatch a new brood,
Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.


18 posted on 08/12/2022 4:44:16 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I chase them away with a .410
Works great.


19 posted on 08/12/2022 6:11:49 PM PDT by sasquatch
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Working over a manhole on B’way on Manhattan’s UWS (Moscow on Hudson) one day when a flurry of feathers started raining down. I looked up, but sky was clear. Old biddy waiting to cross the street asked, “What’s this” I replied, “Probably some falcon getting lunch”... “ Oh, that’s terrible “ she spluttered.

Perigrine and Merlin have a field day in Manhattan with all the pigeons. I once watched a Peregrine do stoop after stoop between skyscrapers in lower Manhattan. Not sure if it was hunting or just doing touch-and-gos. lol
Once found a female merlin perched on a pipe in a basement of an apartment house on Malcolm X Blvd in Harlem. Have no idea how she got in or out, but when I checked a couple of hours later, she was gone


20 posted on 08/12/2022 7:59:01 PM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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