wl howls scare pigeons on parkway
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- wl howls scare pigeons on parkway
- The World Revolves Around Thursty
- Alan Rosenberg: Looking learning in meet and greet
wl howls scare pigeons on parkway
New York Daily News – Dec 19, 2007
The owl howls – think scarecrows with speakers – boom from the Manhattan side of the bridge to the Bronx adjacent to the tollbooths on the lower level. The piped-in noise from the pigeons’ natural predators is a huge success in keeping the area clean said Joyce Mulvaney spokeswoman for MTA Bridges and Tunnels. The pigeons created major problems at the toll plaza and its facility building laying a coat of bird droppings on walkways railings and window sills. And the smell despite the neighboring Hudson River was intense. “When the device goes off” Mulvaney said “they scatter.
The World Revolves Around Thursty
Houston Chronicle – Dec 20, 2007
I have a squirrel feeder to keep them entertained. They never catch them of course but they don’t stop trying. I put bird seed in my birdbath so that Jumper has some pigeons to point. Today she was running full bore around the yard when she passed the birdbath and came to a screeching halt solid on point. Pointers aren’t supposed to “sight” point they should do it by smell. Nevertheless not having any thick cover in my yard it’s all I have to offer her and it is a breathtaking sight whenever I see her standing like a statue save for the legs quivering with excitement. Thursty is another story.
Alan Rosenberg: Looking learning in meet and greet
Providence Journal – Dec 19, 2007
Its yard is home to a bell that looks very much like a smaller version of the Liberty Bell minus the crack. The bell is “very significant” Scott says; on Halloween each year kids used to ring it. The bell was moved from the belfry to this spot in 1972 and it looks like the town’s pigeons have not been shy about making its acquaintance. “It’s getting worn” Scott says clearly upset. “At least in the belfry it would’ve been protected. ” But there’s no time to dwell on this. We’re on to the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Hopkinton which bills itself as “the oldest continuously meeting Sabbath-keeping church in America… Camenga would like us to stay but he can tell we have places to go. Scott loses track of his car keys digs in his pocket and takes us to the First Hopkinton Cemetery burial place of Burdicks and Babcocks and other old Hopkinton families. Near the cemetery’s edge is the grave of Ferris B. Dove not only the longtime postmaster of Rockville but also a Narragansett war chief known as Roaring Bull. A woman named Mary Saunders was buried here in 1803; her stone has its price $33 engraved on the back. Scott clearly knows all these gravesites and oddities by heart including an above-ground burial vault with the inscription “1895” above the door. That Scott says is where before the invention of backhoes and bulldozers “they stored people in winter when they couldn’t dig graves.
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